craze

craze is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
2. transitive verb. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
3. transitive verb. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
4. intransitive verb. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
5. intransitive verb. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
6. noun. Craziness; insanity.
7. noun. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
8. noun. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
9. noun. a fine crack in a glaze or other surface
10. noun. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

    "he always follows the latest fads"

    "it was all the rage that season"

    Synonyms: cult, fad, furor, furore, rage

11. noun. state of violent mental agitation

    Synonyms: delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria

12. verb. develop a fine network of cracks

    "Crazed ceramics"

13. verb. cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind

    Synonyms: madden

Synonyms

cult, fad, furor, furore, rage, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria, madden

Common word forms

crazed, crazes, crazing

Words from these letters

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