craze

Meaning

Noun

1. A strong habitual desire or fancy.
2. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.
3. A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
4. (archaic) Craziness; insanity.

Verb

1. (archaic) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
2. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
3. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
4. (archaic, intransitive, transitive) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
5. (intransitive, transitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

Synonyms

fad

madden

mania

passion

furor

madness

rage

😡

fury

frenzy

furore

insanity

derange

cult

vogue

fashion

cracking

hysteria

check

delirium

trend

crotchet

urge

crank

craziness

crack

lust

rabidness

rift

shatter

style

tear

twist

unbalance

drive mad

strong desire

passing fashion

hair crack

aberration

craze crack

bandwagon

binge

bluster

break

bug

🐛

cacoethes

clink

crackle

crazing

distortion

eccentricity

Translations

mania

enloquecer

çıldırtmak

bestseller

delirio

delilik

frénésie

engouement

manie

furore

mania

verrückt machen

Tick

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹeɪz/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: crasen

Cognate with Scots: krass

Cognate with Icelandic: krasa

Cognate with Norwegian: krasa

Cognate with Swedish: krasa

Cognate with Danish: krase

Cognate with Faroese: kras

In summary

From Middle English crasen (“to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Scots krass (“to crush, squeeze, wrinkle”), Icelandic krasa (“to crackle”), Norwegian krasa (“to shatter, crush”), Swedish krasa (“to crack, crackle”), Danish krase (“to crack, crackle”), Faroese kras (“small pieces”).