crazed

comparative more crazed · superlative most crazed · alternative archaic craz'd

1. Maddened; driven insane.

   The crazed look in his eyes made everyone back away.

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   He was crazed with thirst and resorted to drinking seawater.

2. Obsessed with something.

   We live and work in the heart of tech-crazed San Francisco Bay Area, where use of AI is even greater than in America at large.

   2025 December 9, Rachel Konrad, Matt Abrahams, “Why Young People are Struggling to Communicate”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC

3. Covered with cracks (generally applied to porcelain, plastics, and paints).

   Sunbleached paints and plastics are often crazed and faded.

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   The dark traces of the cracks in the crazed surface of the pot contrasted with the light glaze and were quite attractive.

   Art thou that villaine in whoſe damned mouth, / Was neuer heard of any woꝛd but woundes? / Whoſe recreant limbes are nocht with gaping ſcarres, / Thicker then any carking craft-mans ſkoꝛe, / Whoſe very ſkalpe is ſcratcht and craſde and bꝛoken, / Like an old mazzer beaten on the ſtones, / And ſtandſt thou now to ſaue our maimed men? / A plague vppon thee coward.

   1599, [Thomas Heywood], “[The First Part]”, in The First and Second Partes of King Edward the Fourth. […], London: […] I. W. for Iohn Oxenbridge, […], →OCLC, signatures C2, recto – C2, verso

   Antonyms: uncrazed

alternative archaic craz'd

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of craze