noun
craze
krayz
noun
1
A brief but intense popular enthusiasm for something, a fad.
"The board game became a nationwide craze almost overnight."
verb
1
To develop a network of fine cracks, as in old pottery glaze or paint.
"The old porcelain vase had begun to craze with age."
How to Use Craze
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA short-lived, intense trend or fashion, or (of pottery/paint) to crack into a fine web pattern.
Common pairings
a nationwide craze
the latest craze
crazed glaze
Word Forms
crazed past tense, crazes plural, crazes singular
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Etymology
From Middle English crasen, "to shatter or break apart," from Old Norse — the modern "fad" sense developed later, as if popular enthusiasm were a kind of mental crack.