craze

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cause to become mentally deranged or obsessed; make insane.
2. v. To produce a network of fine cracks in the surface or glaze of.
3. v. To become mentally deranged or obsessed; go insane.
4. v. To become covered with fine cracks.
5. n. A short-lived popular fashion; a fad.
6. n. A fine crack in a surface or glaze.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To break; burst; break in pieces.
2. To crack or split; open in slight cracks or chinks; crackle; specifically, in pottery, to separate or peel off from the body: said of the glaze. See crazing, 2.
3. To become crazy or insane; become shattered in intellect; break down.
4. To break; break in pieces; crush: as, to craze tin.
5. To make small cracks in; produce a flaw or flaws in, literally or figuratively.
6. To disorder; confuse; weaken; impair the natural force or energy of.
7. To derange the intellect of; dement; render insane; make crazy.
8. n. A crack in the glaze of pottery; a flaw or defect in general.
9. n. Insanity; craziness; any degree of mental derangement.
10. n. An inordinate desire or longing; a passion.
11. n. An unreasoning or capricious liking or affectation of liking, more or less sudden and temporary, and usually shared by a number of persons, especially in society, for something particular, uncommon, peculiar, or curious; a passing whim: as, a craze for old furniture, or for rare coins or heraldry.

Wiktionary

1. n. Craziness; insanity.
2. n. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
3. n. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
4. v. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
5. v. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
6. v. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
7. v. transitive, intransitive, archaic To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
8. v. transitive, intransitive To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
2. v. obsolete To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
3. v. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
4. v. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
5. v. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
6. n. Craziness; insanity.
7. n. A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
8. n. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.
9. n. (Ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind
2. v. develop a fine network of cracks
3. n. state of violent mental agitation
4. n. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
5. n. a fine crack in a glaze or other surface