Hypertext Webster Gateway: "crazed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Craze \Craze\ (kr[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crazed}
(kr[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crazing}.] [OE. crasen to break,
fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw. krasa to crackle,
sl[*a] i kras, to break to pieces, F. ['e]craser to crush,
fr. the Scand. Cf. {Crash}.]
1. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See
{Crase}.
God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And
craze their chariot wheels. --Milton.
2. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [Obs.]
Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze
my limbs. --Milton.
3. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits.
--Tilloston.
Grief hath crazed my wits. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
crazed
adj 1: driven insane [syn: {deranged}, {half-crazed}]
2: of a ceramic surface; covered with a network of fine cracks
[syn: {cracked}, {crackled}]
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