Craze \Craze\ (kr[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crazed (kr[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crazing.]

[OE. crasen to break, fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw. krasa to crackle, sl[*a] i kras, to break to pieces, F. ['e]craser to crush, fr. the Scand. Cf. Crash.]

1. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.

God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels. --Milton.

2. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [Obs.]

Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs. --Milton.

3. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.

Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits. --Tilloston.

Grief hath crazed my wits. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)