1. To develop, or cause, a pattern of very fine surface cracks.
2. An activity, object, or idea that becomes intensely popular, usually for a short time.
3. To make someone act wildly or become severely disturbed.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- crazed glaze
- crazed glass
- a surface begins to craze
On the page
The glaze had crazed into a mesh of faint lines.
Heat from the fire crazed the glass without shattering it.
The craze for spirit photographs reached even the village shop.
For one summer, collecting broken watches became the town’s latest craze.
The prolonged confinement seemed to craze him.
Word forms
- Base
- craze
- Past tense
- crazed
- Past participle
- crazed
- Present participle
- crazing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- craze
- Present continuous
- am/is/are crazing
- Present perfect
- have/has crazed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been crazing
- Past
- crazed
- Past continuous
- was/were crazing
- Past perfect
- had crazed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been crazing
- Future
- will craze
- Future continuous
- will be crazing
- Future perfect
- will have crazed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been crazing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Verb: crazes; crazed; crazed; crazing. Can be transitive or intransitive in the cracking sense. Countable noun: craze, crazes. Not every cracked object is crazed: a fine pattern of cracks is characteristic. Register: neutral. Commonness: common as a noun for a fashion; uncommon as a surface-cracking verb (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).
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