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Definition: Crazed |
CrazedAdjective1. Driven insane. 2. Of a ceramic surface; covered with a network of fine cracks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crazed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Synonyms: CrazedSynonyms: cracked (adj), crackled (adj), deranged (adj), half-crazed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insanity | Adjective: insane, mad, lunatic,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched; off one's head. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crazed |
| Specialty definitions using "crazed": DICKED IN THE NOB ♦ Madge Wildfire. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Not power crazed nutters trying to take over the universe (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) No matter how crazed and bent out of shape I ever got, you were always there for me and I'll never forget it. You really are my best friend (Beverly Hills, 90210; writing credit: Ed Ferrara; Jim Lincoln) I prefer the term 'Professional Crazed Fan' (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) He looks a little crazed. (The Great Muppet Caper; writing credit: Jerry Juhl; Tom Patchett) It's been so long since I've skied without some crazed henchman after me. (Kim Possible; writing credit: Julie DuFine; Madellaine Paxson) | |
Lyrics | Lord I was crazed (Paradise By The Dashboard Light; performing artist: Meat Loaf) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Crazed (1970) Pleasure Crazed (1929) Speed Crazed (1926) Science Crazed (1991) Sex Crazed (1989) | |
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| Berserk; crazed; crazy; delirious; deranged; intemperate; mad-dog; raging; sick; wild. | Berserk; beside oneself; blazing; carried away; convulsive; crazed; crazy; delirious; distracted; distraught; emotional; excited; agitated; fiery; frantic; frenzied; fuming; furious; impassioned; impetuous; incensed; irrepressible; mad; maddened; nervous. | ||
| Blither; blithering; idiot; idiotic; incomprehensible; insane; institutionalized; crazy; crazed; out of your mind; out of his mind; out of my mind; mentally ill; aberrant; bewildered; confused; crazed; delirious; demented; deranged; deviant; deviate; ding. | Crazy; laugh; insane; insanity; bonkers; cracked; crazed; cuckoo; daft; delirious; demented; deranged; lunatic; mad; maniacal; mental; nuts; nutty; psycho; screw loose; screwball; screwy; unbalanced; unglued; unhinged; unzipped; wacky; whacko. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Crazed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 74.74% of the time. "Crazed" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 74.74% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 13.68% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 10.53% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 95 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "crazed": cracked crackled crazed. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "crazed": drug-crazed, power-crazed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crazed | 16 |
crazed peeling young | 9 |
crazed distiller lyrics peeling young | 5 |
amazon crazed sex | 5 |
becomes between crazed discoloured grouting tile | 4 |
sex crazed | 4 |
crazed lyrics peeling young | 4 |
diary of a crazed mimbanite | 3 |
crazed sex woman | 2 |
bjs crazed gay porn ramblings | 2 |
crazed sex teen | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crazed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i çmendur (anile, bedlamite, berserk, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, frantic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, muddy, non compos, not all there, phrenetic, underwit, wild). (various references) | |
Arabic | مخبول (crack-brained, demented, fool, idiotic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, mentally deranged, off his head, out of one's mind, potty, stupid, touched). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | луд (bedlamite, bonkers, crazy, daft, demented, kinky, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, maniac, off one's nut, off one's rocker, out of one's mind, possessed, potty, scatty, screwy, wild). (various references) | |
Chinese | 发狂. (various references) | |
Czech | pobláznìný (infatuated). (various references) | |
Dutch | gekraqueleerd. (various references) | |
Finnish | säröinen (cracked). (various references) | |
French | craquelures, tressaillage (crazing), fou (crazy, cretin). (various references) | |
German | verrückt gemacht (maddend). (various references) | |
Greek | Kρακελαρισμένο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tébolyodott (demented, maniacal, unbalanced, unhinged), repedezett (choppy, cracked, cracky, crannied, flawed, rough, shaky), meghibbant (off one's nut, warped), hibbant (light-headed, queer, queer in the head), eszeveszett (bereft of reason, frantic), elmebajos (dement, insane, lunatic, maniacal, sicko), bolond (batty, berk, bonkers, coxcomb, cracked, crackpot, crazy, daft, dement, demented, dippy, droll, fool, foolish, goofy, hare-brained, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, moonstruck, nutter, nutty, off the beam, ratty, scatty, screwy, to be not such a fool as people make out, to be nuts, to be up the pole, up the pole), bogaras (buggy, crazy, dorky, eccentric, fanciful, have a little finger ache, kinky, maggoty). (various references) | |
Italian | screpolatura (burst, chap, check, crack, cracking, crevice, flaw). (various references) | |
Korean | 열광하게 하". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | azedcray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rachado (cleft, cloven, cracked, cracky, crannied, crazy, sprung). (various references) | |
Russian | сумасшедший (batty, bedlamite, bonkers, brain-sick, crackpot, crazy, daffy, daft, demented, deranged, dippy, loco, loony, mad, madman, off one's nuts, off-the wall, out of one's mind, psycho, raving maniac, scatty, up the pole, wacko), бешеный (baresark, berserk, berserker, frantic, furious, mad, rabid, tearing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | besomučan. (various references) | |
Spanish | loco (amok, amuck, barmy, bonkers, bugs, crack-brained, cracky, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, distraught, dunce, fogey, half wit, haywire, hectic, idiot, jenny ass, juggins, lemon, loony, loose, mad, madman, nutty, out of one's mind, round the bend, up the pole, wall eyed, wet, whacky, wild, zany). (various references) | |
Swedish | sprucken (chappy, cracked), krackelerad, förryckt (crack-brained, cracked, crazy, distracted, insane, mad, nuts). (various references) | |
Turkish | heyecanlı (agitated, aglow, agog, astir, declamatory, dramatic, emotional, excitable, excited, exciting, febrile, feverish, glowing, gone, gripping, happy, heated, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a lather, inspired, nail biting, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, spirited, stormy, thrilling, tiptoe, vibrant, warm, wrought up, zealous), deliye dönmüş, çılgın (berserk, bonkers, crackpot, crazy, delirious, demented, demon, demoniac, desperado, distracted, foolhardy, frenetic, frenzied, insane, kook, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, moonstruck, nut, phrenetic, possessed, raving, rip roaring, ripsnorter, scatty, wild). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схиблений (crazy, crazy about, mad, maniac, maniacal, nuts), божевільний (addle-brained, addle-pated, batchy, bedlam, brainsick, crack-brained, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, deranged, frenetic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, moonstruck, non compos, nuts, nutty, possessed, rabid, scatty), психично хворий, дуже захоплений (crazy about). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Crazed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chazed, Cortazar, craza, crazen, crazer, crazey, crazied, crazon, crize, Croze, kraze. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crazed" (pronounced krā"zd) |
| 4 | -r ā" z d | appraised, braised, grazed, phrased, praised, raised, razed, reappraised. |
| 3 | -ā" z d | amazed, blazed, dazed, fazed, gazed, glazed, phased, unfazed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-r-z" | |
-1 letter: acred, arced, cadre, cared, cedar, craze, raced, razed. | |
-2 letters: aced, acre, adze, cade, card, care, czar, dace, dare, daze, dear, race, raze, read. | |
-3 letters: ace, adz, arc, are, cad, car, ear, era, rad, rec, red, zed. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ar, de, ed, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-r-z" | |
+2 letters: credenza. | |
+3 letters: archaized, calorized, crazyweed, credenzas, cruzadoes, curarized, czardases, graecized, racemized. | |
+4 letters: arabicized, bacterized, carbonized, carburized, cartelized, cauterized, cicatrized, crazyweeds, factorized, narcotized, ostracized, radicalize, scherzando. | |
+5 letters: aerobicized, caramelized, categorized, centralized, crystalized, decarbonize, decarburize, democratize, desacralize, grecianized, merchandize, radicalized, radicalizes, recanalized, scherzandos, secularized. | |
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