crazen.
/kreɪz/, U.S. /kreɪz/ a. A crack, breach, cleft, flaw. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > a crack or breach > a partial fracture or crack
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fault?1518
craze1587
crack1590
flaw1615
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1545/2 The weight of the wall it selfe..made a clift or crase therein.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cas, hoarse like a bell that hath got a craze.
1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 339 The frame..must be kept from the least craze or thraw in the wheels.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun]
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crud1932
bot1937
lurgy1947
Korean haemorrhagic fever1951
nadger1956
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun]
craze1534
morbidness1668
mental illness1788
psychopathy1847
phrenopathy1853
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > an imperfection > defect or fault or flaw > immaterial
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vicec1386
craze1534
crack1570
flaw1586
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snag1830
1534 J. Fisher Let. to Cromwell in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. 175 I..fall into crases and diseases of my body.
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. I1 Whilest there is yet but one craze or slender flaw in the touchstone of thy reputation.
1608 Dispute Question of Kneeling 71 Would it not argue a craze in the brayne?
1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 419 This defect and craze, that is in the Saints judgements.
2. † c. A crazy person, a crack-brain. Obsolete. rare.
a. An insane or irrational fancy; a mania. Also in weakened sense: a capricious and usually temporary enthusiasm; the craze = (all) the rage (see rage n. 5g).
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion > fashionable thing or craze
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furor1704
fever1761
rage1780
go1784
the fashion1790
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fashionablea1800
craze1813
delirament1856
fad1881
fash1895
new thinga1911
flu1943
kick1946
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational loves and desires
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zoomania1807
craze1813
musicomania1833
musomania1833
nostomania1835
gamomania1841
dipsomania1843
mesmero-mania1843
theomania1853
opsomania1857
potomania1858
opiomania1868
polemomania1874
xenomania1879
oenomania1897
Pygmalionism1905
urolagnia1906
claustrophilia1926
Undinism1928
leprophilia1953
leprophilia1963
thanatophilia1974
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun] > temporary desire
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mania1689
furor1704
influenza1773
rage1780
furore1790
monomania1834
bug1887
craze1887
enthusiasm1895
1813 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 204 The Duke..has a twist, or, as the Scotch say, a craze on the subject of dress.
1851 T. De Quincey Sketch from Childhood in Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 6 147/2 I had a perfect craze for being despised.
1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith ix. 389 The miser's craze for gold.
1887 Fortn. Rev. 42 284 A quiet craze touching everything that pertains to Napoleon the Great and the Napoleonic legend.
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. iv. 86 A child of many crazes, eager for poetry one week, for natural history the next.
1911 W. A. Raleigh Let. 15 Dec. (1926) II. 374 I've been lecturing at Glasgow... Now that I'm not there I'm quite the craze.
1934 Planning 2 xxxvi. 5 The pre-war craze for awarding gold medals to approved products.
1967 Amer. Speech 42 40 The sport has reached craze proportions.
b. Craziness, insanity; a crazy condition.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness
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craziness1755
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vecord1788
derangement1800
vesania1800
a screw loose1810
unsoundness1825
dementedness1833
craze1841
psychosis1847
crackiness1861
feyness1873
crack1891
meshugas1898
white ant1908
crackedness1910
pottiness1933
loopiness1939
wackiness1941
screwballism1942
kink1959
1841 Ld. Cockburn Circuit Journeys (1888) 147 Germany,..where mysticism and craze seem to be indigenous.
1887 R. N. Carey Uncle Max x. 78 Until my head is in a craze with pain and misery.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person
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March harec1500
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Tom o' Bedlam1569
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Tom1575
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dement1857
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psychopathic1890
ding-a-ling1899
meshuggener1900
détraqué1902
maddiea1903
nut1908
mental1913
ding1929
lakes1934
wack1938
fruitcake1942
nutty1942
barm-pot1951
nutcake1953
nutter1958
nutcase1959
nut job1959
meshuga1962
nutsy1964
headcase1965
nutball1968
headbanger1973
nutso1975
wacko1977
nut bar1978
mentalist1990
1831 J. P. Collier Hist. Eng. Dramatic Poetry I. 404 Tom Dekker, Haywood, Middleton And other wandring crayzes [rhyme blazes].
3. Mining. (See quots. and cf. craze v. 2 and craze-mill n.)
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1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 221 The tin..is sorted into 3 divisions..the middle..being named..the crease.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 319 Creazes, the work or Tin in the middle part of the Buddle in dressing. [Hence in Weale Dict. Terms, etc.]
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 124 Craze or Creaze, Corn[wall]. The tin-ore which collects in the middle part of the buddle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
crazev.
/kreɪz/, U.S. /kreɪz/ a. transitive. To break by concussion or violent pressure; to break in pieces or asunder; to shatter.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > beat or dash to pieces
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to-flap1382
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to-rusha1387
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stun1470
beat1570
to-swinge-
c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 324 With glas Were all the windowes well yglased..and nat an hole ycrased.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xx. 325 Ther was many a grete spere crased.
1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. iii. 34 Thou canst not craze their barres.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 210 God..will..craze thir Chariot wheels. View more context for this quotation
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] > crush
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roll1886
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. xxiv His basenet was bowed and ycrased.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxliiii. f. clxvv Kyng Phylyp..broused or crased ye Castellys of Gentelyne & Gurney.
1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 3 Ane schip..quhilk..is euyl crasit on the schaldis.
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. P.viii Sore wounded, craised, and bruseed, so as he dyeth of it.
1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. xlii. 139 If the feather haue beene much bruzed or crased, so it be crosse cracked it will heale.
1726 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 260 Many of them [papers] are imperfect and sadly crazed.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)]
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to fall apart1761
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c1430 Syr Gener. 5785 The sheldes crased thoo somdele.
1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1209 Her pitcher should not crase.
1582 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue xxiv, in Poems (1870) 60 Thou glasse..I maruel howe her beames..Do never cause thy brittle sides to craze.
1731 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 491 I would have caused bind it, but he persuades me it would craze in the sea carriage.
1854 F. Tennyson in Fraser's Mag. 50 645 The wild waters crazing on the rocks.
2. Mining. (transitive) To crush (tin ore) in a mill. (See craze-mill n., crazing n. 3.)
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > dress ore
stamp1568
shadder1582
craze1610
tye1757
spall1758
toze1758
trunk1758
concentrate1771
to griddle out1778
jig1778
puddle1963
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 185 Their devices of breaking, stamping..crasing..and fining the mettall.
3.
a. transitive. To break (a thing) so that the parts still remain contiguous; to crack. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crack (but not break)
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crack1609
flaw1665
star1787
mill1825
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 381 What quod my lord þer is no more to doone..I am right siker þat þe pot was crased.
1541 Act 33 Hen. VII c. 35 The reparacion..of any the pypes of leade hereafter to be crased or broken.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 43 As soon as these parts are crazed by hard rubbing, and thereby their tenacity spoiled, the springiness..makes a divulsion.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 15/1 Craze, to crack. ‘I've crazed the jug’.
b. spec. To produce minute cracks on the surface of (pottery). (Cf. crackle n. 3.)
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > pottery-making or ceramics > make pottery [verb (transitive)] > glaze > produce cracks in glaze
craze1874
1874 [implied in: Punch 9 May When the glaze on china-ware cracks, it is said technically to be crazed. (at crazed adj. 2)].
1880 [implied in: Webster's Dict. Suppl. Crazed pottery, that which has the glazing covered with irregular cracks. (at crazed adj. 2)].
1888 Harper's Mag. Sept. 525 The Japanese potter..opens his oven..and permits a cold blast of air to enter for the express purpose of ‘crazing’ his productions.
c. intransitive. To become minutely cracked: said of the glaze on the surface of pottery.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > actions of painting or coating materials [verb (intransitive)] > of glaze: crack or form blister
craze1832
spit1904
1832 [implied in: G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 30 Crazing is a technical phrase, used to denote the cracking of the glaze. (at crazing n. 1)].
1883 Binns Guide Worcester Porcelain Wks. 26 The glaze..will not craze or crackle on the surface.
1888 Harper's Mag. Sept. 525 To secure a paste and glaze whose coefficients of expansion were the same..a condition of things in which the glaze should not ‘craze’.
4. figurative. To destroy the soundness of, impair, ruin; to ruin financially, render bankrupt. (Usually in passive.) Obsolete or archaic.
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the mind > possession > poverty > make poor or impoverish [verb (transitive)]
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depoverish1569
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sift1591
waste1599
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disenrich1647
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poorify1711
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pauper1841
to clear out1884
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penny-pincha1961
immiserize1971
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally
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subvert1565
craze1573
taint1573
spoil1578
endamage1579
qualify1584
stain1584
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ravish1594
interess1598
invitiate1598
corrupt1602
venom1621
depauperate1623
detriment1623
flaw1623
embase1625
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murder1644
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depress1647
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butcher1659
shade1813
mess1823
puckeroo1840
untone1861
blue1880
queer1884
dick1972
forgar-
society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [verb (transitive)] > bankrupt
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break1623
bankrupt?a1625
burst1712
to strike a docket1809
bust1827
smash1857
1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) liv. f. 168v Reuelyng his truth to the world now crased and waxen old.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 119 Thinkyng thereby to craze the force of veritie.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 29 b Creditor..crazd, and deade and buried in debt.
1641 T. Heywood Reader, here you'l plainly See 6 French and Spanish winds [sic]..in their worth deboyst and craisd.
5. † b. intransitive. To become infirm or diseased. rare.
a. To impair or break down in health; to render infirm. Usually in past participle: Broken down in health, decrepit, infirm. crazed in his wind (of a horse): = broken-winded adj. Obsolete or archaic.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > make weak
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to lay along1598
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to run down1733
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imbecile1829
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devitalize1849
wreck1850
atrophy1865
crumple1892
1476 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 493 I ame some-whatt crased, what wyth the see and what wythe thys dyet heere.
a1555 N. Ridley Let. in Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 62 Mayster Latimer was crased, but I heare nowe thankes be to God that he amendeth agayne.
1568 T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 14v If fierce disease shall crase thy corps.
1637 T. Heywood Dial. ii. 123 Craz'd or in health.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 571 Till length of years And sedentary numness craze my limbs. View more context for this quotation
1684 London Gaz. No. 1937/4 A Brown Bay Mare..a little crazed in her wind.
1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxix, in Poems 19 They've nae sair-wark to craze their banes.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 49 Job-like..crazed with blains.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > be in ill health [verb (intransitive)] > fall ill
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mislike?1440
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to take a conceit1543
to fall down?1571
to lay upa1616
to run of (or on) a garget1615
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invalid1829
wreck1876
collapse1879
to go sick1879
to sicken for1883
1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 25 Thy body is not so firme, but thou findest this humour over-abound, and that part craze faster then another.
6.
a. To impair in intellect; to render insane, drive mad, distract. Usually in past participle: Insane, mad, deranged. crazy n. (Now the ordinary sense.)
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > drive mad [verb (transitive)]
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mada1425
overthrow?a1425
to go (also fall, run) mada1450
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to face (a person) out ofc1530
dement1545
distemper1581
shake1594
distract1600
to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1600
unwita1616
insaniate?1623
embedlama1628
dementate1628
crack1631
unreason1643
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overset1695
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insanify1809
derange1825
bemoon1866
send (someone) up the wall1951
1503–4 Earl of Oxford in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 486 Your broder..ys so troubelid with sekenes and crasid in his myndes that I may not kepe hym aboute me.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 157 The greefe hath craz'd my wits. View more context for this quotation
1685 London Gaz. No. 2030/4 Aged about 52 years..something Crazed in his Wits.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 394 Inscriptions..Such as..Craze antiquarian brains with endless doubt.
1824 T. Medwin Conv. with Byron (1832) II. 17 The upbraidings of her own conscience, and the loss of her child, crazed the old lady's mind.
1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens IV. xx. iii. 73 The outbreak which was soon to craze the world with terror.
b. intransitive. To become crazy, go mad.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > be or become mad [verb (intransitive)]
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awedeeOE
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ravea1325
to be out of mindc1325
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to lose one's mindc1380
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forgetc1385
to go out of one's minda1398
to wede (out) of, but wita1400
foolc1400
to go (also fall, run) mada1450
forcene1490
ragec1515
waltc1540
maddle?c1550
to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1565
pass of wita1616
to have a gad-bee in one's brain1682
madden1704
to go (also be) off at the nail1721
distract1768
craze1818
to get a rat1890
to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read)1896
(to have) bats in the belfryc1901
to have straws in one's hair1923
to take the bats1927
to go haywire1929
to go mental1930
to go troppo1941
to come apart1954
1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 165 My tortur'd brain begins to craze.
1835 R. Browning Paracelsus i. 28 Demanding life to be explored alone—Till I near craze.
1861 J. Pycroft Ways & Words 365 Keeping the head from crazing, and the heart from breaking.
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