Craze

Definition: Craze

Craze

Noun

1. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal: "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season".

2. State of violent mental agitation.

Verb

1. Cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind.

2. Develop a fine network of cracks; "Crazed ceramics".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "craze" was first used: sometime around 1369. (references)

Note: Craze \Craze\ (kr[=a]z), transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Crazed(kr[=a]zd); Crazing.]. (references)

Social Sciences

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

Synonyms: Craze

Fashion

Custom; mode, vogue, go; rage; (desire); prevailing taste; fad, trend, bandwagon, furore, thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word.

Insanity

Fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice); kleptodipsomania; hypochondriasis; (low spirits); melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression; hysteria; amentia.

Crosswords: Craze

It's the next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways (It's Still Rock and Roll To Me; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways (It's Still Rock and Roll To Me; performing artist: Billy Joel)

She's a craze you'd endorse, she's a powerful force (SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE; performing artist: Robert Palmer)

And the world's a craze (Then The Morning Comes; performing artist: Smash Mouth)

Craze (1973)

Twist Craze (1961)

The Love Craze (1918)

Scroggins Gets the Socialist Craze (1911)

The Roller Skate Craze (1907)

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Books

• Crazy for Crazy Bones: The Hot New Toy Craze! (reference)

• Pirate Mazes (Maze Craze) (reference)

• The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze (First Time Book) (reference)

• The Low-Carb Diet Craze : TIME Magazine Cover Story [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Swing Craze (reference)

• Swing Craze W/Swing Party CD (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dance Craze [LIVE] (reference)

• Honky Tonk Train: The Boogie Woogie Craze [LIVE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Stanton SA-12 DJ Craze Signature Mixer (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

Entrance foyer, first floor, from south. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, June 1984. (Reproduction Number: HABS, ARK,26-HOSP,1-D-17) Praised by its original owner as "the most practical, complete, and luxurious bathhouse in the world," the Fordyce Bathhouse in Hot Springs stands today as a reminder of the international health-spa craze of the first half of the twentieth century. People from all over the world flocked to the Fordyce and the other bathhouses on "Bathhouse Row" in Hot Springs in the hope that the many natural springs in the area would help cure their illnesses. Visitors at the Fordyce bought their bath tickets in this foyer before proceeding to the dressing rooms and then to the baths. Today, the Fordyce Bathhouse is the Visitor Center at Hot Springs National Park. Credit: Library of Congress.

Effect of the marathon craze. Credit: Library of Congress.

Aged spectator: I was wonderin' the other day what's become o' this bicycle craze that ... Credit: Library of Congress.

The Bowery Burlesquers presenting an original burletta on the latest New York craze, "Slumming". Credit: Library of Congress.

George Felix & Lydia Barry in "The vaudeville craze". Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Business

This fitness craze of unprecedented scale and intensity is prompting growing numbers of people to go to the studios. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "craze": craze things ♦ have a craze ♦ the latest craze. Additional references.

Beginning with "craze": Craze-mill.

Ending with "craze": witch-craze.

Albanian

mani (delusion, fixation, foible, mania, obsession), lajthitje (aberration, error, miscount, Miss, mistake, oversight), çmenduri (dementia, distraction, lunacy, madness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ضعف (attenuation, backwardness, crack, debility, decrepitude, defect, delicacy, emaciation, enervation, failing, failure, fainting, feebleness, flabbiness, flightiness, frailness, frailty, grogginess, imitators, impairment, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, infirmity, lameness, languor, limp, limpness, shakiness, sickliness, sleeplessness, tenuousness, twice, uneasiness, weak spot, weaklings, weakness), ‏خبل (amentia, befuddle, besot, dementia, derange, distract, fluster, frenzy, infatuate, insanity, lunacy, mad, madden, madness, spare, stagger, stultify, stun, stupefaction, stupefy, tangle, unbalance), ‏جنون (craziness, dementia, foolishness, insanity, lunacy, madness), ‏جزع (anxiety, despondency, despondent, grain, impatient, solicitous, vein). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мода (creation, cult, fashion, mode, rage, style, vogue), мания (fad, mania, obsession, rage), лудост (craziness, distraction, fury, insanity, lunacy, madness, rage), полуда (delirium, frenzy, madness), побърканост (craziness, madness), подлудявам (become insane, dement, distract, drive crazy, drive mad, drive smb. nuts, go crazy, go mad, loco, mad, madden, make wild). (various references)

Chinese 

狂熱 , 时尚 (Fashion, fashions). (various references)

Czech

výstřelek, posedlost (infatuation, obsession, possession), pomátnout, horeèka (fever, temperature). (various references)

Danish

dille. (various references)

Dutch

furore (hit), bestseller (bestseller, best-seller, hit). (various references)

Esperanto

furoro (hit). (various references)

Farsi 

فکرکسی رامختل کردن , ترک (Abandonment, Chap, Clef, Crack, Fracture, Interstice, Proscription, Quit, Renunciation, Turkish), شکاف (Break, Chap, Chasm, Chink, Clef, Crack, Crevice, Cut, Fraction, Fracture, Hiatus, Incision, Interstice, Nick, Notch, Overture, Rake, Rip, Scar, Seam, Slash, Slit, Slither, Split, Suture), شوق (Ardor, Delight, Zeal), شور (Briny, Emotion, Excitement, Rapture, Rut, Saline, Salty, Sensation), دیوانه کردن (Derange, Distract, Mad, Madden, Moon), دیوانگی (Amuck, Delirium, Insanity, Mania, Rage, Rave). (various references)

Finnish

viimeinen villitys (the latest craze). (various references)

French

craqueler (se), vogue, engouement, dingue (crazy), devenir fou (go crazy). (various references)

German

rissig werden. (various references)

Greek 

τρέλα (aberration, craziness, cult, fad, madness, mania). (various references)

Hungarian

hóbort (caprice, eccentricity, fad, vagary, whim, whimsy). (various references)

Indonesian

kegandrungan (craze for, infatuation, love). (various references)

Italian

pazzia (freakiness, insanity, lunacy, madness, screwiness), mania (addiction, crotchet, fad, mania, obession, rage, searches, trick, wedge), infatuazione (crush, infatuation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

海外留学熱 (craze for studying abroad). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かいがいりゅうがくねつ (craze for studying abroad). (various references)

Korean 

열광. (various references)

Manx

baanraghey (distract). (various references)

Norwegian

mani. (various references)

Pig Latin

azecray.(various references)

Portuguese

mania (crank, crotchet, fad, furor, furore, habit, hang-up, kink, mania), paixão (addiction, ardor, ardour, fire, flame, glow, love, love-sickness, lust, mania, passion, rabidity, vehemence, zeal). (various references)

Romanian

scoate din minţi (infatuate, madden), nebunie (craziness, dementia, distraction, Folly, foolery, foolishness, frenzy, hobby, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, mischief, phrensy, raving), manie (crank, fad, failing, foible, hobby, mania, monomania), înnebuni (go crazy, go mad, go off one's head, infatuate, madden, run mad). (various references)

Russian 

мода (fashion, mode, rage, vogue). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pomama (frenzy, oestrus, rabidity), moda (fashion, style, vogue). (various references)

Spanish

manía (fad, foible, hobby horse, kink, mania, obsession, oddity, rage, thing, trick). (various references)

Swedish

mani (craziness, fad, mania). (various references)

Turkish

rağbet (demand, desire, esteem, run, rush, vogue), moda (fad, fancy, fashion, fashionable, go, in, in the fashion, mode, rage, style, the done thing, ton, trendy, vogue, with it), delirtmek (bedevil, distract, drive mad, drive smb. nuts, madden), çatlatmak (chap, crack, flaw, rift, split), çatlamak (burst, chap, cleave, crack, dehisce, die of exhaustion, fracture, split, spring), çatlak desenle sırlamak, çılgınlık (craziness, delirium, distraction, escapade, fad, foolhardiness, frenzy, fury, lunacy, madness, nuts, rabidness, rave, raving, ravings, vagary, wildness). (various references)

Ukrainian

мода (fashion, style, ton, trend, vogue), манія (delusion, mania), з'їхати з глузду (be off one's onion, dement, go crazy, go mad, lose one's reason, madden, run mad), зводити з розуму (dement, madden), загальне захоплення, божеволіти, предмет божевілля. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tính ham mê, tính hơi điên vết ran, sự mất trí (distraction, insaneness). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "craze": crazed, crazes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Craze" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: araze, Carozzi, Carranza, carrozza, Carzo, caza, caze, cazi, cazzo, ceaz, chaze, cirize, claze, Cortazar, crabe, crace, crae, crage, crale, crasie, craza, crazen, crazer, crazey, crazon, creeze, crese, crez, criz, crize, crizi, Croze, Cruze, cruzi, Curazzo, fraze, irazu, Krase, kraze, Kryazh, Mrazek, traze. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: acre, care, czar, race, raze.

-2 letters: ace, arc, are, car, ear, era, rec.

-3 letters: ae, ar, er, re.

+1 letter: crazed, crazes.

+2 letters: crazier, crazies, zebraic.

+3 letters: archaize, calorize, craziest, credenza, curarize, czarevna, graecize, racemize.

+4 letters: arabicize, archaized, archaizes, bacterize, calorized, calorizes, carbazole, carbonize, carburize, cartelize, catalyzer, cauterize, cicatrize, craziness, crazyweed, credenzas, cruzadoes, curarized, curarizes, czardases, czarevnas, factorize, graecized, graecizes, narcotize, ostracize, racemized, racemizes, schnauzer, vocalizer.

+5 letters: aerobicize, arabicized, arabicizes, bacterized, bacterizes, caramelize, carbazoles, carbonized, carbonizes, carburized, carburizes, cartelized, cartelizes, catalyzers, catechizer, categorize, cauterized, cauterizes, centralize, cicatrized, cicatrizes, coleorhiza, crazyweeds, crystalize, czarevitch, factorized, factorizes, graecizing, grecianize, mechanizer, narcotized, narcotizes, ostracized, ostracizes, racemizing, radicalize, recanalize, scherzando, schmalzier, schnauzers, secularize, socializer, vocalizers, vulcanizer.