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verb

Craze v. t. (past & past part. crazed; pres. part. crazing)

To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase. "God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels."

To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. (Obs.) "Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs."

To derange the intellect of; to render insane. "Any man... that is crazed and out of his wits." "Grief hath crazed my wits."

Craze v. i.

To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane. "She would weep and he would craze."

To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

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Etymology of 'Crazed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crazed" Quotes from Famous Books

... seen the old fellow several times. He used to come to San Antonio once a-year on business with the merchants there. I remember, too, he once brought a daughter with him—splendid girl that, and no mistake! Faith, she crazed half the young fellows in San Antonio, and there was no end of duels about her. She used to ride wild horses, and fling the lazo like a Comanche. But what am I talking about? That mezcal has got into my brains, sure enough. It must have been her you chased? ...

— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid

... hamlet hailed a birth Judy used to cry: When she heard our christening mirth She would kneel and sigh. She was crazed, we knew, and we ...

— Poems of the Past and the Present • Thomas Hardy

... noticeable than the way in which, while so many symbolisms spring up out of the story, the hero's half-crazed and bewildered atmosphere is the one which we really accept, until the reading is ended. By this means we are enabled to live through the whole immortal future which he projects for himself, though he never in reality achieves any of it. This forcing of the infinite ...

— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop

... strenuously behind the barn. The eager and unruly brutes pushed and struggled to get into the pails all at once, and in consequence spilt nearly all of the milk on the ground. This was the last trial; the woman fell down on the damp grass and moaned and sobbed like a crazed thing. The children came to seek her and stood around like little partridges, looking at her in scared silence, till at last the little one began to wail. Then the mother rose wearily to her feet, and walked ...

— Other Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... sullen quiet reflecting the morbid emotions of Mike Sabota, its brutish-built proprietor, resulting from his heavy losses on Thunderbolt in the two-mile sweepstakes when the Gold Dust maverick, ridden by the drug-crazed Ramblin' Kid, darted under the wire lengths ahead of the black ...

— The Ramblin' Kid • Earl Wayland Bowman

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