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   Craze

   /krāz/

   

   noun

   • 1. an enthusiasm for a particular activity or object which appears suddenly and achieves widespread but short-lived popularity: "the latest craze for bungee jumping"

   verb

   • 1. make (someone) insane or wildly out of control: "crazed by hunger, the population began to turn on the rebels"
   • 2. produce a network of fine cracks on (a surface): "the lake was frozen over but crazed with cracks"
   • ▪ develop fine cracks: "internal stresses often caused the glue to craze"

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

   Scrabble Points: 16

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