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Definition of craze in English: crazenoun kreɪzkreɪz An enthusiasm for a particular activity or object which appears suddenly and achieves widespread but short-lived popularity. the new craze for step aerobics Example sentencesExamples - Instead, huge stages were erected in public places to cater to the local craze for music, particularly dangdut, a local musical genre mixing Arabic and Indian influences.
- Towards Christmas, expect to see knits which have taken the fashion craze for extravagance the whole way - and why not?
- Japanese arts and crafts exercised such a hold over European and American imaginations that in the late 19th century there was a craze for everything from fans to porcelain.
- While thousands rush to revamp interiors in the ongoing craze for home improvement programmes, more than 2.5 million homes in the UK need substantial repairs.
- Once the craze for motorcycles caught on, manufacturers began unveiling new models capable of higher speeds, better breaking and sporting sleeker designs.
- The first craze for learning English in Shanghai occurred in the 1860s, according to a paper recently submitted to a Fudan University symposium.
- When Coco Chanel started the craze for suntans in the 1920s, only those who could afford to head for warmer shores were able to indulge in the new fashion.
- Come to think of it, videocassette tapes never really became very popular, though there was quite a craze for them soon after they were introduced in the market.
- In the world of investment, gold is also highly sought after, but the current craze for this commodity has nothing to do with the festive season.
- We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.
- The grading system may put an end to the craze for ranks, but it will open a bee-hive of new problems.
- I think when the craze for Indian classical music started in the 60s it was a lot more superficial thing than it is now.
- Thereafter England also enthusiastically embraced the craze for Egyptian antiquities.
- So perhaps the craze for entering beauty contests is based on some hard-nosed assumptions.
- The craze for watching football matches triggers a paranoid outburst.
- Several business commentators highlighted the importance of television in fueling the craze for space toys and apparel.
- A craze for wacky weddings has grown since marriage laws were widened to include a vast range of potential venues.
- He also commented on the current craze for Blogs - which he described as online diaries, many of them read only by the writer.
- The salon organizers have made prints a special highlight of this year's event, hoping to start a craze for print collecting in China.
- She read a wedding planner for inspiration, and learned about a new craze for hot air balloon weddings.
Synonyms fad, vogue, trend, fashion, enthusiasm, passion, infatuation, love, obsession, mania, compulsion, fixation, fetish, weakness, fancy, taste, novelty, whim, fascination, preoccupation, rage informal thing
verb kreɪzkreɪz [with object]1usually as adjective crazedMake (someone) wildly insane or out of control. Example sentencesExamples - Some crazed drivers refuse to let children cross the road in safety and insist on driving around them, honking their horns and shaking their fists as they do.
- You were running all over the place like some crazed person.
- No, the scandal that their daughter was a violent, crazed lunatic would haunt them for however long they chose to stay there.
- If religions teach that life after death is better then it is hardly surprising that some crazed followers will actually believe it.
- And then, wouldn't you know it, here comes another crazed madman wanting to destroy the world.
- This wasn't a movie about crazed sex maniacs or loose women or pregnant girls or the vice rackets.
- He stood at a watch post every day and night, guarding her as if she were some crazed maniac going to destroy the whole city that she lived in.
- It was now almost 3 a.m. on a completely darkened road, and some crazed guy is flailing his arms and yelling at them as they pass.
- I'm not some crazed person who enjoys being annoyed all the time.
- They stared at Paige as if she was some crazed person going on a rampage.
- He didn't need some crazed girl ruining all his plans.
- And then she faded away from me too, becoming a bitter, crazed mother who was determined to stop me from following the path of my father.
- You run into your fair share of flashers, born-again Christian Evangelists and general crazed lunatics.
- People looked at us like we were sex crazed teenagers or something.
- Avoiding long lines, impossible parking and crazed consumers will help you keep your cool.
- He was very small, and looked terrified when four half-starved and dementedly crazed teenagers opened the door and almost burst out, their eyes bulging.
- They follow with the titular track from that album, leaping about the stage like crazed teenagers and thrusting their arms into the air in gestures of defiance.
- Soon they came upon Blanche, a poor, crazed woman living in the wilds.
- It was like being in a cage while thousands of these crazed fans scraped and clawed at you.
- Her name would be splashed across the town weekly, her beaming smile belying the sick-to-her-stomach fear that some crazed madman was out there.
Synonyms mad, insane, out of one's mind, deranged, demented, certifiable, lunatic, wild, raving, distraught, berserk, manic, maniac, frenzied, hysterical, psychopathic British sectionable informal crazy, mental, off one's head, out of one's head, raving mad 2Produce a network of fine cracks on (a surface) the loch was frozen over but crazed with cracks Example sentencesExamples - An authentic example will almost certainly show crazing, similar to that found on old oil paintings.
- Cleaning and sealing the surface will help prevent further crazing, but the long-term solution is to resurface.
- True, old wear produces smooth spider web crazing and softened edges.
- The works feature bits of architecture, coloured blobs over the top and crazed, raised surfaces of paint, all lovingly laid down on miniature rectangles of MDF.
- Recently I picked up a slightly crazed Edwardian wall tile, part of an incomplete design, only to drop it in horror at being asked for €10 a piece.
- But to some people, the various stains, scratches, and crazing that accumulate with the passage of time on a concrete countertop aren't blemishes at all but a patina to be valued.
- Tap the shells with the back of a spoon to craze them, then peel.
- There is no suggestion that that sample panels exhibited crazing or cracking.
- From a distance, it could be plaster of Paris, but up close there is no mistaking the fine, crazed lines of human skin.
- 2.1no object Develop fine cracks.
internal stresses often caused the glue to craze Example sentencesExamples - They will cause the plastic to craze with minute cracks.
- In this case chemical agents penetrate the plastic, causing swelling, softening, charring, crazing, delamination, blistering, embrittlement, discoloration, dissolving, and ultimate failure.
- In addition, Roma found that Makrolon will craze, but the cracks won't propagate all the way through the material.
- Such contact can cause crazing - the development of small cracks - in the material.
- In the world where she was most alive, the sun split in the sky, the earth erupted, her body was torn to pieces, her teeth and bones crazed and broken to fragments.
- Its surface had become heavily crazed, making it impossible to examine the specimen, so the balsam was removed with xylene.
Synonyms crack, split, fissure, crevice, break, rupture, breach, rift, cleft, slit, chink, gap, cranny, interstice, opening, aperture, rent
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'break, produce cracks'): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish krasa 'crunch'. Rhymes ablaze, amaze, appraise, baize, Blaise, blaze, braise, broderie anglaise, chaise, daze, écossaise, erase, faze, gaze, glaze, graze, Hayes, Hays, haze, laze, liaise, lyonnaise, maize, malaise, Marseillaise, mayonnaise, Mays, maze, phase, phrase, polonaise, praise, prase, raise, raze, upraise Definition of craze in US English: crazenounkreɪzkrāz An enthusiasm for a particular activity or object which appears suddenly and achieves widespread but short-lived popularity. the latest craze for bungee jumping Example sentencesExamples - She read a wedding planner for inspiration, and learned about a new craze for hot air balloon weddings.
- While thousands rush to revamp interiors in the ongoing craze for home improvement programmes, more than 2.5 million homes in the UK need substantial repairs.
- So perhaps the craze for entering beauty contests is based on some hard-nosed assumptions.
- The grading system may put an end to the craze for ranks, but it will open a bee-hive of new problems.
- Thereafter England also enthusiastically embraced the craze for Egyptian antiquities.
- When Coco Chanel started the craze for suntans in the 1920s, only those who could afford to head for warmer shores were able to indulge in the new fashion.
- Towards Christmas, expect to see knits which have taken the fashion craze for extravagance the whole way - and why not?
- The salon organizers have made prints a special highlight of this year's event, hoping to start a craze for print collecting in China.
- Come to think of it, videocassette tapes never really became very popular, though there was quite a craze for them soon after they were introduced in the market.
- Once the craze for motorcycles caught on, manufacturers began unveiling new models capable of higher speeds, better breaking and sporting sleeker designs.
- In the world of investment, gold is also highly sought after, but the current craze for this commodity has nothing to do with the festive season.
- We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.
- He also commented on the current craze for Blogs - which he described as online diaries, many of them read only by the writer.
- A craze for wacky weddings has grown since marriage laws were widened to include a vast range of potential venues.
- Japanese arts and crafts exercised such a hold over European and American imaginations that in the late 19th century there was a craze for everything from fans to porcelain.
- Instead, huge stages were erected in public places to cater to the local craze for music, particularly dangdut, a local musical genre mixing Arabic and Indian influences.
- I think when the craze for Indian classical music started in the 60s it was a lot more superficial thing than it is now.
- The craze for watching football matches triggers a paranoid outburst.
- Several business commentators highlighted the importance of television in fueling the craze for space toys and apparel.
- The first craze for learning English in Shanghai occurred in the 1860s, according to a paper recently submitted to a Fudan University symposium.
Synonyms fad, vogue, trend, fashion, enthusiasm, passion, infatuation, love, obsession, mania, compulsion, fixation, fetish, weakness, fancy, taste, novelty, whim, fascination, preoccupation, rage
verbkreɪzkrāz [with object]1usually as adjective crazedWildly insane or excited. power-crazed tinpot dictators Example sentencesExamples - Some crazed drivers refuse to let children cross the road in safety and insist on driving around them, honking their horns and shaking their fists as they do.
- They follow with the titular track from that album, leaping about the stage like crazed teenagers and thrusting their arms into the air in gestures of defiance.
- Soon they came upon Blanche, a poor, crazed woman living in the wilds.
- I'm not some crazed person who enjoys being annoyed all the time.
- Avoiding long lines, impossible parking and crazed consumers will help you keep your cool.
- If religions teach that life after death is better then it is hardly surprising that some crazed followers will actually believe it.
- It was now almost 3 a.m. on a completely darkened road, and some crazed guy is flailing his arms and yelling at them as they pass.
- He stood at a watch post every day and night, guarding her as if she were some crazed maniac going to destroy the whole city that she lived in.
- You run into your fair share of flashers, born-again Christian Evangelists and general crazed lunatics.
- People looked at us like we were sex crazed teenagers or something.
- And then, wouldn't you know it, here comes another crazed madman wanting to destroy the world.
- This wasn't a movie about crazed sex maniacs or loose women or pregnant girls or the vice rackets.
- You were running all over the place like some crazed person.
- He didn't need some crazed girl ruining all his plans.
- He was very small, and looked terrified when four half-starved and dementedly crazed teenagers opened the door and almost burst out, their eyes bulging.
- They stared at Paige as if she was some crazed person going on a rampage.
- No, the scandal that their daughter was a violent, crazed lunatic would haunt them for however long they chose to stay there.
- Her name would be splashed across the town weekly, her beaming smile belying the sick-to-her-stomach fear that some crazed madman was out there.
- It was like being in a cage while thousands of these crazed fans scraped and clawed at you.
- And then she faded away from me too, becoming a bitter, crazed mother who was determined to stop me from following the path of my father.
Synonyms mad, insane, out of one's mind, deranged, demented, certifiable, lunatic, wild, raving, distraught, berserk, manic, maniac, frenzied, hysterical, psychopathic 2Produce a network of fine cracks on (a surface) the lake was frozen over but crazed with cracks Example sentencesExamples - The works feature bits of architecture, coloured blobs over the top and crazed, raised surfaces of paint, all lovingly laid down on miniature rectangles of MDF.
- True, old wear produces smooth spider web crazing and softened edges.
- From a distance, it could be plaster of Paris, but up close there is no mistaking the fine, crazed lines of human skin.
- An authentic example will almost certainly show crazing, similar to that found on old oil paintings.
- Recently I picked up a slightly crazed Edwardian wall tile, part of an incomplete design, only to drop it in horror at being asked for €10 a piece.
- Tap the shells with the back of a spoon to craze them, then peel.
- Cleaning and sealing the surface will help prevent further crazing, but the long-term solution is to resurface.
- But to some people, the various stains, scratches, and crazing that accumulate with the passage of time on a concrete countertop aren't blemishes at all but a patina to be valued.
- There is no suggestion that that sample panels exhibited crazing or cracking.
- 2.1no object Develop fine cracks.
Example sentencesExamples - In this case chemical agents penetrate the plastic, causing swelling, softening, charring, crazing, delamination, blistering, embrittlement, discoloration, dissolving, and ultimate failure.
- In addition, Roma found that Makrolon will craze, but the cracks won't propagate all the way through the material.
- In the world where she was most alive, the sun split in the sky, the earth erupted, her body was torn to pieces, her teeth and bones crazed and broken to fragments.
- Such contact can cause crazing - the development of small cracks - in the material.
- Its surface had become heavily crazed, making it impossible to examine the specimen, so the balsam was removed with xylene.
- They will cause the plastic to craze with minute cracks.
Synonyms crack, split, fissure, crevice, break, rupture, breach, rift, cleft, slit, chink, gap, cranny, interstice, opening, aperture, rent
Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘break, produce cracks’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish krasa ‘crunch’. |