craze

/kreiz/

Thân thiện

The pottery had a beautiful glaze, but a fine craze developed over time.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A temporary, intense, and widespread enthusiasm or fashion: A craze is a sudden, popular, and often short-lived interest in something, followed with exaggerated zeal.
   • A state of violent mental agitation or frenzy: A craze can refer to a state of wild excitement or madness.
   • A fine crack in a glaze or other surface: In ceramics or glass, a craze is a network of fine cracks.

2. Verb:

   • To develop a fine network of cracks: To become covered with a pattern of small cracks.
   • To cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind: To make someone become wildly excited or insane.

Examples of Usage

• Noun (as a popular fashion):
  • The new dance is the latest craze.
  • He has a craze for collecting vintage cars.
• Noun (as a state of agitation):
  • The news sent the crowd into a craze.
• Noun (as a crack):
  • The antique vase has a beautiful craze on its surface.
• Verb (to crack):
  • The old painting has crazed over the centuries.
• Verb (to make insane):
  • The constant noise was enough to craze anyone.

Advanced Usage

• "to be all the craze": to be extremely popular or fashionable for a short time.
  • Platform shoes were all the craze in the 1970s.
• "to follow a craze": to participate in a popular trend.
  • Teenagers often follow the latest craze.

Variants and Related Words

• Crazed (adjective): Mad, insane, or wildly excited. It can also describe a surface covered with fine cracks.
  • The crazed man was shouting in the street.
  • The crazed glaze on the pottery gives it character.
• Crazy (adjective): Mentally deranged, foolish, or intensely enthusiastic.
  • He's crazy about jazz music.

Synonyms

• Fad: A short-lived fashion.
• Rage: A widespread, temporary enthusiasm.
• Mania: An excessive enthusiasm or desire; a mental illness marked by periods of great excitement.
• Frenzy: A state of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(This word does not commonly form phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms

• "The craze is catching": The popular trend is spreading to more people.
  • Everyone is buying those sneakers; the craze is really catching.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a fine crack in a glaze or other surface
2. state of violent mental agitation
3. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
   • he always follows the latest fads
   • it was all the rage that season

Verb

1. develop a fine network of cracks
   • Crazed ceramics
2. cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind

Từ đồng nghĩa

• delirium
• frenzy
• fury
• hysteria
• fad
• furor
• furore
• cult
• rage
• madden