Definition of: craze

(krāz) v. crazed, craz·ing v.t.
1. To cause to become insane or mentally ill.
2. To make full of minute intersecting cracks, as the glaze of pottery.
3. Obs. To impair or weaken; break down.
—v.i.
4. To become insane.
5. To become full of minute cracks.
—noun
1. Mental disorder.
2. A transient freak of fashion; a caprice or prejudice.
3. A flaw in the glaze of pottery. [ME crasen <Scand. Cf. Sw. krasa break.]