Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Broken down; impaired; decrepit.
  • Cracked in the glaze: said of pottery.
  • Insane; demented.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Maddened, driven insane.
  • adjective Covered with cracks (generally applied to porcelain).
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of craze.

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  • adjective driven insane

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Examples

  • There are three major protagonists (played by Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, and, a revelation, Eliza Bennett), two minor (another promising youngster, Rafi Gavron, and the incomparable Helen Mirren clearly having the time of her life), and two tertiary (Jim Broadbent in crazed crotchety mode and Sienna Guillory doing fantastic physically expressive work).

    Inkheart 2009

  • There may be a certain crazed nobility to their kamikaze gestures.

    Stromata Blog: 2010

  • There may be a certain crazed nobility to their kamikaze gestures.

    Not Europe Yet 2010

  • There may be a certain crazed nobility to their kamikaze gestures.

    Obama Nation 2010

  • There may be a certain crazed nobility to their kamikaze gestures.

    Stromata Blog 2010

  • There may be a certain crazed nobility to their kamikaze gestures.

    Economics 2010

  • There are three major protagonists (played by Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, and, a revelation, Eliza Bennett), two minor (another promising youngster, Rafi Gavron, and the incomparable Helen Mirren clearly having the time of her life), and two tertiary (Jim Broadbent in crazed crotchety mode and Sienna Guillory doing fantastic physically expressive work).

    February 2009 2009

  • There may be a certain crazed nobility to their kamikaze gestures.

    Current Affairs 2010

  • To folks who say going off half crazed is no way to deal with our problems, I would simply say pretending they don’t exist and aaying so to everyone is a bit like John McCain telling Americans that our economy was doing fine.

    Matthew Yglesias » The George Will Scandal and the Decline of Great American Newspapers 2009

  • And I'm quite certain being called a crazed sex poodle by the woman accusing you of inappropriateness in Portland is not to your advantage.

    Meredith C. Carroll: An Open Letter to Al Gore 2010

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