[
US
/ˈkɹeɪz/
]
[ UK /kɹˈeɪz/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈeɪz/ ]
NOUN
-
an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
it was all the rage that season
he always follows the latest fads - state of violent mental agitation
- a fine crack in a glaze or other surface
VERB
-
develop a fine network of cracks
Crazed ceramics - cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind
How To Use craze In A Sentence
- At the height of the craze, I stood on the North Bank at Highbury in a forest of bananas, watching awestruck as they celebrated another goal going in by either bopping your neighbour over the head, or simply chucking the thing in the air.
- Arsenal, where he can look forward to becoming instantly gripped with a crazed case of the cartwheeling jitters, learning to flap wildly at any kind of cross and generally buying into the idea of goalkeeping as a business of leaping about athletically saving penalties in between diving over the top of toe-poked 40-yard back passes. The Guardian World News
- The salon organizers have made prints a special highlight of this year's event, hoping to start a craze for print collecting in China.
- He was crazed with grief after the death of his mother.
- It's a familiar and rather well-worn mechanic, but the sepia-toned graphical overlay is a stylish touch and the extravagant rag doll physics sends your victim rocketing through the air like a crazed acrobat, which is fun to behold and suitably reminiscent of a Peckinpah bloodbath. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
- A throwback to the Polynesian craze that swept North America in the '50s and '60s, the restaurant is full of Eastern Island statuettes, wooden tikis and a Hawaiian ukulele soundtrack.
- Its surface had become heavily crazed, making it impossible to examine the specimen, so the balsam was removed with xylene.
- I played like a crazed dog chasing a balloon on wet lino. The Sun
- There was also a craze for ‘speedballs’ where users take a mix of heroin and crack cocaine to sustain their high.
- The club's former cloakroom attendant has been given the crazed grin of a bunny boiler and arms that seem more like distressed eels than human limbs. Times, Sunday Times