Crossword-Solution: CRAZE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Craze | v. t. | To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase. |
| Craze | v. t. | To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. |
| Craze | v. t. | To derange the intellect of; to render insane. |
| Craze | v. i. | To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane. |
| Craze | v. i. | To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery. |
| Craze | n. | Craziness; insanity. |
| Craze | n. | A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet. |
| Craze | n. | A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CRAZE (5)
This usage comes from radio communications, which in turn probably came from landline telegraph/teleprinter usage, as badly abused in the Citizen's Band craze a few years ago.
Each one a brand of this devil's land, where I've played and I've lost the game, A broken wreck with a craze for `hooch', and never a cent to my name.
Who, for instance, in search of relaxation, would ever dream of choosing the drawing-up of a testamentary disposition of property? Yet this was the form taken by Harold's latest craze; and in justice this much had to be said for him, that in the christening of his amusement he had gone right to the heart of the matter.
Why, the very people whose opinion you're afraid of--what did they do themselves when the South African craze was on? I'm told that the scum of the earth had only to own some Chartered shares, and pretend to be 'in the know' about them--and they could dine with as many duchesses as they liked.
How did this craze for decoration originate? The inhabitants of Florence and Athens did not consider it necessary.
Quotes with CRAZE (3)
I call [fourth-wave feminism] fainting — couch feminism, a la the delicate Victorian ladies who retreated to an elegant chaise when overcome with emotion. As an equality feminist from the 1970s, I am dismayed by this new craze. Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can’t cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers. Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism — and for women.
For he did not, he would have said, care for women; he never felt at home or at ease with them; and that monstrous creature beginning to be talked about, the New Woman of the nineties, filled him with horror. He was a quiet, conventional person, and the world, viewed from the haven of Brookfield, seemed to him full of distasteful innovations; there was a fellow named Bernard Shaw who had the strangest and most reprehensible opinions; there was Ibsen, too, with his disturbing …
a brief history of art Cave paintings. Clay then bronze statues. Then for about 1,400 years, people painted nothing except bold but rudimentary pictures of either the Virgin Mary and Child or the Crucifixion. Some bright spark realised that things in the distance looked smaller and the pictures of the Virgin Mary and the Crucifixion improved hugely. Suddenly everyone was good at hands and facial expression and now the statues were in marble. Fat cherubs started appearing, whi…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 139 times in crossword archives (1954–2023).