craze

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To cause to become mentally deranged or obsessed.
• intransitive verb To produce a network of fine cracks in the surface or glaze of.
• intransitive verb To become mentally deranged or obsessed.
• intransitive verb To become covered with fine cracks.
• noun A short-lived popular fashion; a fad.
• noun A fine crack in a surface or glaze.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A crack in the glaze of pottery; a flaw or defect in general.
• noun Insanity; craziness; any degree of mental derangement.
• noun An inordinate desire or longing; a passion.
• noun An unreasoning or capricious liking or affectation of liking, more or less sudden and temporary, and usually shared by a number of persons, especially in society, for something particular, uncommon, peculiar, or curious; a passing whim: as, a craze for old furniture, or for rare coins or heraldry.
• To break; burst; break in pieces.
• To crack or split; open in slight cracks or chinks; crackle; specifically, in pottery, to separate or peel off from the body: said of the glaze. See crazing, 2.
• To become crazy or insane; become shattered in intellect; break down.
• To break; break in pieces; crush: as, to craze tin.
• To make small cracks in; produce a flaw or flaws in, literally or figuratively.
• To disorder; confuse; weaken; impair the natural force or energy of.
• To derange the intellect of; dement; render insane; make crazy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
• intransitive verb To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
• transitive verb To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
• transitive verb obsolete To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
• transitive verb To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
• noun Craziness; insanity.
• noun A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
• noun A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.
• noun (Ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Craziness; insanity.
• noun A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
• noun A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
• verb To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
• verb To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
• verb To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
• verb transitive, intransitive, archaic To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
• verb transitive, intransitive To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind
• verb develop a fine network of cracks
• noun state of violent mental agitation
• noun an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
• noun a fine crack in a glaze or other surface