craze

Meanings

Noun

• craziness; insanity.
• A strong habitual desire or fancy.
• A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad
• A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.

Verb

• To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
• To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
• To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
• To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
• To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

Origin

• From Middle English crasen ("to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze"), from Old Norse *krasa ("to shatter"), ultimately imitative.
• Cognate with Danish krase ("to crack, crackle"), Swedish krasa ("to crack, crackle"), Norwegian krasa ("to shatter, crush"), Icelandic krasa ("to crackle").