craze

noun

1. A strong habitual desire or fancy.
2. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.

   “Winemaking was a huge craze in the 1970s, when affordable package holidays to the continent gave people a taste for winedrinking, but the recession made it hard to afford off-license prices back home.”

3. A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
4. (archaic)Craziness; insanity.

   “‘A poor fellow with a craze, sir,’ said Mr. Dick, ‘a simpleton, a weak-minded person […] may do what wonderful people may not do. […]’”

verb

1. (archaic)To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.

   “till length of years / And ſedentary numneſs craze my limbs”

2. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.

   “any man […] that is crazed and out of his wits”

   “Grief hath crazed my wits.”

3. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.

   “And if Robin should be cast / Sudden from his turfed grave, / And if Marian should have / Once again her forest days, / She would weep and he would craze: [...]”

4. (archaic, intransitive, transitive)To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.

   “God looking forth will trouble all his Hoſt / And craze thir Chariot wheels:”

5. (intransitive, transitive)To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.