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Craze \Craze\, v. i.
1. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed;
to rave; to become insane.
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She would weep and he would craze. --Keats.
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2. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
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Craze \Craze\, n.
1. Craziness; insanity.
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2. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
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It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his
Jean dressed genteelly. --Prof.
Wilson.
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3. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new
amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad; as, the bric-a-brac
craze; the [ae]sthetic craze.
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Various crazes concerning health and disease. --W.
Pater.
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4. (Ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is
caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular
heat.
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Craze \Craze\ (kr[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crazed}
(kr[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crazing}.] [OE. crasen to break,
fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw. krasa to crackle,
sl[*a] i kras, to break to pieces, F. ['e]craser to crush,
fr. the Scand. Cf. {Crash}.]
1. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See
{Crase}.
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God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And
craze their chariot wheels. --Milton.
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2. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [Obs.]
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Till length of years,
And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs. --Milton.
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3. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
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Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits.
--Tilloston.
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Grief hath crazed my wits. --Shak.
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