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crazed adjective [ kreɪzd ]

• insane or wildly out of control.
• "a crazed killer"
Similar: mad, insane, out of one's mind, deranged, demented, certifiable, lunatic, wild, raving, distraught, berserk, manic, maniac, frenzied, hysterical, psychopathic, sectionable, crazy, mental, off one's head, out of one's head, raving mad,
Opposite: sane,
• (of porcelain) characterized by a network of fine cracks in the glaze.
• "a crazed porcelain sink"

craze verb

• make (someone) insane or wildly out of control.
• "crazed by hunger, the population began to turn on the rebels"
• produce a network of fine cracks on (a surface).
• "the loch was frozen over but crazed with cracks"
Origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘break, produce cracks’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish krasa ‘crunch’.


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