Crazed

  

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Crazed

Definition: Crazed

Crazed

Adjective

1. 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: Crazed

Synonyms: cracked (adj), crackled (adj), deranged (adj), half-crazed (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Crazed

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Crazed

Specialty definitions using "crazed": DICKED IN THE NOBMadge Wildfire. (references)

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Modern Usage: Crazed

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Crazed

DomainTitle

Books

  • Belly Laughs and Babies 2nd Delivery: More Heartwarming and Humorous True-Life Stories from Pregnancy to Crazed New Parenthood (reference)

  • Flex Sessions: Success, Pride and a Sex Crazed Society (reference)

  • Get the Net!: The Crazed Fly Fisherman's Catalog (reference)

  • The Crazed (reference)

  • The Verve: Crazed Highs and Horrible Lows (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Crazed

Computer Images:
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Sounds Captioned with "Crazed".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
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.

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Usage Frequency: Crazed

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)74.74%7139,674
Lexical Verb (past tense)13.68%1397,576
Lexical Verb (past participle)10.53%10111,207
Noun (proper)1.05%1339,140
                    Total100.00%95N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Crazed

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Crazed

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

crazed

16

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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.

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Modern Translation: Crazed

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.

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Misspellings: Crazed

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).

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Rhyming with "Crazed"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "crazed" (pronounced krā"zd)
4-r ā" z dappraised, braised, grazed, phrased, praised, raised, razed, reappraised.
3-ā" z damazed, blazed, dazed, fazed, gazed, glazed, phased, unfazed.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Crazed

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Sounds
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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