(v. t.) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
(v. t.) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
(v. t.) To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
(v. i.) To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
(v. i.) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
(n.) Craziness; insanity.
(n.) A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
(n.) A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
Example Sentences:
(1) The coroner, Alan Craze, blamed poor communication and lack of organisation for the death of Lance Corporal Michael Pritchard, who was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest and abdomen in the "blue on blue" incident in Helmand province.
(2) But last week's trading statement from Unilever confirmed that, far from cashing in on the dieting craze, Slim Fast's sales have been shrinking faster than a weight watcher's waistline.
(3) A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
(4) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
(5) ‘Twosie’ trend takes off Primark is backing the “twosie” as this year’s Christmas novelty hit in the UK, just as 2012’s craze the onesie has crossed the Channel in a late surge of popularity on the continent.
(6) The fashionable did not invent the craze for sunbathing, as we've been encouraged to believe.
(7) Sprawling across 110 hectares on the outskirts of Milan, this crazed collage of undulating tents, tilting green walls and parametrically-contorted lumps can mean only one thing: Expo 2015, latest in a long and controversial tradition of “world’s fairs”, has landed.
(8) Jimi Heselden, who latched on to an international craze for the upright, motorised "green commuter machines", was testing a cross-country version when he skidded into the river Wharfe which runs beside his Yorkshire estate.
(9) The tabloid conclusion is that the North's leaders are crazed – Kim Jong-un is a "deranged despot", the Sun wrote on Friday – while the Team America version is that they are idiotic.
(10) As the leader of the skiffle craze, he inspired the formation of literally thousands of do-it-yourself bands across the country, and was directly responsible for the 1960s pop explosion that - ironically - was to severely damage his own career.
(11) Knuckles, who is credited to have invented the house genre, begun his residency at the westside club in 1977 at the height of disco fever, but by 1980 a backlash had swept the craze away.
(12) Delivering his verdict after a week-long inquest, Craze said Pritchard's death was an accident, albeit an avoidable one.
(13) But there was a tonic for collective despair: from the decaying motor town of Coventry, 2 Tone Records promoted a "black and white, unite and fight" stance while launching a fashion, dance and musical craze that peaked with the 1981 summer of riots.
(14) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.
(15) Their threat to sweep across continents like the armies of Muhammad, to stable their horses in the Vatican, are crazed delusions, we should not amplify them.
(16) The positive aspect is that far from being driven by a crazed, Hitler-like quest for European domination, the objectives of the Putin government appear to be both limited and rational: the protection of its regional security interests and great power status.
(17) Nowhere is the Sarah Brown craze more feverish than on the internet.
(18) #Bellfie by Matt Collins, managing director at Platypus Digital The big craze for 2015 will be the #bellfie.
(19) However, the larger apatite crystal size and loss of prismatic structure in crazed and cratered areas may partly explain previous observations of reduced rates of subsurface demineralization in lased enamel.
(20) "Obviously it doesn't fit into the paper cut-out picture of what a celebrity should look like," Cherry says, "and I think the whole scenario has become really crazed.
Fury
Definition:
(n.) A thief.
(n.) Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
(n.) Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
(n.) pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
(n.) One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
(n.) A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
(2) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
(3) With Fury, I’m not going to have no remorse, I’m not going to have no sympathy.
(4) My idea in Orientalism was to use humanistic critique to open up the fields of struggle, to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of polemical, thought-stopping fury that so imprison us.
(5) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(6) China greeted the announcement of Liu Xiaobo’s win with fury: a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, attacked the event as a “political farce”.
(7) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
(8) Jeremy Hunt has been forced into a partial climbdown in his dispute with NHS junior doctors in an attempt to stop their fury at a threatened punitive new contract spilling over into strike action.
(9) But, as the latest Atlantic fury advances on these islands, it looks too little too late.
(10) That cannot be right.” Fury, who was stripped of his IBF title on Tuesday night after signing up for a rematch with Klitschko, tweeted last week: “Hopefully I don’t win @BBCSPOTY as I’m not the best roll model [sic] in the world for the kids, give it to someone who would appreciate it”, but the BBC has no plans to remove him from the shortlist or make any special arrangements to avoid potential controversy in Belfast on 20 December.
(11) Like a ghost from the past, Haye, who pulled out of two fights with Fury, eased himself back into the limelight before his own comeback and told the Evening Standard that the new champion would lose respect if he did not give him a title shot one day.
(12) It’s a cheap shot, but for Latham, politics has always been about his western Sydney roots and his fury with leftists “enjoying the luxury of high incomes and cosmopolitan interests” while dismissing suburban Australians as sexist, racist and homophobic.
(13) Tyson Fury: what next for Britain's new heavyweight boxing champion?
(14) The power of Murdoch himself can best be seen by the speed and fury of Tory MPs ready to criticise the Google tax deal even after George Osborne described it as a “major success”.
(15) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like this nation scorned.” “We have never been an ordinary political party,” Salmond told his audience.
(16) But what I will say is that if you are young and you are experiencing feelings of fury and heartbreak about the result, you are justified in doing so.
(17) I recently discovered that I'm in The Filth and the Fury DVD eating cake and talking to Sid - my brother bought it me for Christmas.
(18) But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
(19) The IBF has stripped Tyson Fury of his world heavyweight title on account of his failure to defend the belt against the mandatory challenger, Vyacheslav Glazkov, instead choosing a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko , whom the Briton beat on 28 November.
(20) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.