crazed

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craze

(krāz)

v. crazed, craz·ing, craz·es

v.tr.

1. To cause to become mentally deranged or obsessed.

2. To produce a network of fine cracks in the surface or glaze of.

v.intr.

1. To become mentally deranged or obsessed.

2. To become covered with fine cracks.

1. A short-lived popular fashion; a fad.

2. A fine crack in a surface or glaze.

[Middle English crasen, to shatter, of Scandinavian origin.]

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crazed

(kreɪzd)

adj

1. driven insane

2. (Ceramics) (of porcelain or pottery) having a fine network of cracks in the glaze

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Adj.

crazed - driven insane

deranged, half-crazed

insane - afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter"

crazed

adjective mad, crazy, raving, insane, lunatic, demented, unbalanced, deranged, berserk, unhinged A crazed gunman slaughtered five people last night.

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fendillé

crazed

[kreɪzd] ADJ

1. [look, person] → loco, demente

2. [pottery, glaze] → agrietado, cuarteado

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crazed

[ˈkreɪzd] adj

(= crazy) → fou(folle)

[pottery, glaze] → craquelé(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

crazed

[kreɪzd] adj (look, person) → folle, pazzo/a; (pottery, glaze) → incrinato/a

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All day long to the judgment-seat The crazed Provincials drew-- All day long at their ruler's feet Howled for the blood of the Jew.

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He had now cast from him the last vestige of his loyalty for his employer, and thus freed had determined to use every means within his power to win Professor Maxon's daughter, and with her the heritage of wealth which he knew would be hers should her father, through some unforeseen mishap, meet death before he could return to civilization and alter his will, a contingency which von Horn knew he might have to consider should he marry the girl against her father's wishes, and thus thwart the crazed man's mad, but no less dear project.

I would be more criminally liable than your father were I to keep it from you, for my brain, at least, is not crazed. Virginia, you have in your mind a picture of the hideous thing that carried you off into the jungle?"

"One can never tell," replied von Horn, "what strange, new vagaries may enter a crazed mind to dictate this moment's action or the next."

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Still anxious to keep off the subject of affection, on which she believed him to have become crazed, she made another effort to keep his mind elsewhere.

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Crazed with jealousy and rage, blind and bestial with all the elemental passions of insulted manhood, I entered the house and sprang up the stairs to the door of my wife's chamber.

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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship's company down to doom with him?

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For three days men crazed with fear have surged about this portal in vain attempts to solve its mystery."

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Only one, and he a miserable creature, of a crazed aspect, is so shattered and made drunk by horror, that he sings, and tries to dance.

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``and I a crazed fool; but, uncle Cedric, and cousin Athelstane, the fool shall decide this controversy for ye, and save ye the trouble of straining courtesies any farther.

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Here you shall lie alone and in darkness with the carcass of your accomplice festering in its rottenness by your side, until crazed by loneliness and hunger you feed upon the crawling maggots that were once a man."

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And dwell on crazed Ciaran and his mates' penchant for making each other knock back such delightful concoctions as sardines and shower gel...

Hols hell hard to swallow

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