crazed

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., crasen, craisen "to shatter," probably Germanic and perhaps ultimately from a Scandinavian source (e.g. Old Norse *krasa "shatter"), but entering English via an Old French form (cf. Modern French écraser). Original sense preserved in crazy quilt pattern and in reference to pottery glazing (1832). Mental sense perhaps comes via transferred sense of "be diseased or deformed" (mid-15c.), or it might be an image. Related: Crazed; crazing.

Example Sentences for crazed

I thought he must be crazed by over-study, and I could only sit and stare at him, open-mouthed.

He realized now that the crazed brute under him must run himself out.

I murmured, and turning once more from her, rushed away like one crazed into the wood.

A crazed creatur on a white horse galloped up an' dispersed 'em.

He turned an' looked at me, as if I was crazed or he was himself, 'You won't care?'

Some of them could swim, but they were either hurt or crazed with fright.

Bill said he was a drifter—a dangerous maniac who must have been crazed by the sun.

Now, how is that poor passenger who was crazed by a shot from the road-agents?

That his wound had crazed him, yes; but that is not the worst of it.

He was mad, mad with love for her, crazed with hopeless passion.

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