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Craze   /kreɪz/   Listen
Craze

noun
1.
An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.  Synonyms: cult, fad, furor, furore, rage.  "It was all the rage that season"
2.
State of violent mental agitation.  Synonyms: delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria.
3.
A fine crack in a glaze or other surface.
verb
(past & past part. crazed; pres. part. crazing)
1.
Cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind.  Synonym: madden.
2.
Develop a fine network of cracks.






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"Craze" Quotes from Famous Books



... scale—a fact by no means to be deplored from an archaeological point of view. Dense, quaintly-shaped hornbeam hedges are not unfrequent in the gardens of many old English mansions, and in some old country farmhouses the sixteenth century craze is still perpetuated ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 • Various

... United States. Our instructors do not know well enough how to adapt knowledge to human needs; they have the erroneous notion that the chief function of an educational institution is to impart information; and, too, many of them are afflicted with the lecture craze. ...
— On the Firing Line in Education • Adoniram Judson Ladd

... greatness of the President's policy, to my notion, is that he has determined to prove to the railroads that they have not the whole works, and the policy that they have followed is as short-sighted as it can be. It will lead, if pursued as it has been begun, to the wildest kind of a craze for government ownership of everything. Just as you people in New York City were forced, by the delinquency and corruption of the gas combine, to undertake the organization of a municipal ownership movement, so it may be that the same qualities in the railroads will create precisely the ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

... for to dwell in a very fine hotel By the mountain's wide expanse, You at once had best repair to that house so good though chere Called the "Grand Hotel de France." Or if for food your craze is, you still can give your praises To the chef of its cuisine. Your taste you need not fetter, for 'tis said in Pau, no better Has ever yet been seen. But this I have to say, you will not like your stay As much as if at Pension ...
— Twixt France and Spain • E. Ernest Bilbrough

... wrong. Come as you please, a l'instant. Ah, ze leettle ones, zay will go craze for joy; ze baron he will geef no more eyes to ze wife who is losing her shape, and all ze officairs, zay will say, 'Gott! How I lofe children!' Mais, I will not angree be, but kiss you so, and so, and so. And to all will I say, 'Voila, deet efer woman haf such a frent for herself ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford


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