CRAZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does craze mean? 

• CRAZE (noun)
  The noun CRAZE has 3 senses:

1. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

2. state of violent mental agitation

3. a fine crack in a glaze or other surface

  Familiarity information: CRAZE used as a noun is uncommon.

• CRAZE (verb)
  The verb CRAZE has 2 senses:

1. cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind

2. develop a fine network of cracks

  Familiarity information: CRAZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAZE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An interest followed with exaggerated zeal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

craze; cult; fad; furor; furore; rage

Context example:

it was all the rage that season

Hypernyms ("craze" is a kind of...):

fashion (the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior)

Derivation:

crazy (intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with)

Sense 2

Meaning:

State of violent mental agitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

craze; delirium; frenzy; fury; hysteria

Hypernyms ("craze" is a kind of...):

mania; manic disorder (a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "craze"):

nympholepsy (a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable)

epidemic hysertia; mass hysteria (a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation)

Derivation:

craze (cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind)

crazy (affected with madness or insanity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A fine crack in a glaze or other surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("craze" is a kind of...):

crack (a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts)

Derivation:

craze (develop a fine network of cracks)

• CRAZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they craze    ... he / she / it crazes   
Past simple: crazed   
Past participle: crazed   
-ing form: crazing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

craze; madden

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "craze"):

derange; unbalance (derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

craze (state of violent mental agitation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Develop a fine network of cracks

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Crazed ceramics

Hypernyms (to "craze" is one way to...):

crack (break partially but keep its integrity)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

craze (a fine crack in a glaze or other surface)

 Context examples 

A poor fellow with a craze, sir, said Mr. Dick, a simpleton, a weak-minded person—present company, you know! striking himself again, may do what wonderful people may not do.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were crazed by the smell of the food.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The poor boy was half crazed with grief, and yet he had to go to London to play this match, for he could not get out of it without explanations which would expose his secret.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A brewer had built it early in the period craze, a decade before, and there was a story that he'd agreed to pay five years' taxes on all the neighboring cottages if the owners would have their roofs thatched with straw.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)