[kreɪz], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an enthusiasm for a particular activity or object which appears suddenly and achieves widespread but short-lived popularity
(e.g: the new craze for step aerobics)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘break, produce cracks’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish krasa ‘crunch’

[kreɪz], (Verb)

Definitions:
- make (someone) become wildly irrational or out of control
(e.g: crazed by hunger, the population began to turn on the rebels)

- produce a network of fine cracks on (a surface)
(e.g: the lake was frozen over but crazed with cracks)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘break, produce cracks’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish krasa ‘crunch’