craze – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to craze
Participle: crazed
Gerund: crazing

Cognates

See the 4 cognates of craze

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	craze
we	Let's craze
you	craze

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to be insane

have a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock, have a screw loose, have bats in one's belfry, have bats in the belfry, have squirrels in one's attic, have toys in the attic, rave

to render insane; to derange the intellect of

becraze, delirate, dement, dementate, drive someone crazy, madden

break

rend, splinter, cleave, shatter, crackle, burst, crack, snap

Antonyms

break

repair, mend, unite, join

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1369, probably from O.N. *krasa "shatter," perhaps via an O.Fr. form. Originally "to shatter;" now-obsolete metaphoric use for "break down in health" (1476) led to n. sense of "mental breakdown." Extension to "mania, fad," is first recorded 1813. Original sense preserved in crazy quilt pattern. Crazy is from 1576 as "sickly;" from 1617 as "insane;" and from 1927 in jazz slang for "cool, exciting." Phrase crazy like a fox recorded from 1935.
2. From Middle English crasen (“to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative.
3. Cognate with Scots krass (“to crush, squeeze, wrinkle”), Icelandic krasa (“to crackle”), Norwegian krasa (“to shatter, crush”), Swedish krasa (“to crack, crackle”), Danish krase (“to crack, crackle”), Faroese kras (“small pieces”). See: Middle English 'crasen', Icelandic 'krasa', Swedish 'krasa', Danish 'krase'.

Sample Sentences