craze
part of speech
noun (a craze, crazes); verb (craze, crazes, crazed, crazing — rare)
meaning for a pupil
1) A craze is something that suddenly becomes very popular for a short time, like a toy, game or dance, and then fades. tree →
2) (verb, rare) To craze means to make someone wild or mad, mostly seen as «crazed». tree →
3) (verb) When glaze on pottery or glass crazes, it gets a pattern of tiny cracks. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life, a craze is a fad in the playground: loom bands, fidget spinners, yo-yos, trading cards. In history lessons there were crazes like the hula hoop. In stories it shows something everyone suddenly wants. Common phrases: «the latest craze», «a craze for», «sweep the country», «craze took off», «crazed with fear».
examples
- Fidget spinners were a huge craze at our school. tree →
- The latest craze is a dance from a video app. tree →
- The hula hoop craze swept America long ago. tree →
- Every kid wanted the cards while the craze lasted. tree →
- Crazes come and go very quickly. tree →
- There was a craze for slime in Year 4. tree →
- The old teapot's glaze had crazed into a web of fine cracks. tree →
- The crazed bull charged at the fence. tree →
note
Plural: crazes. A craze is short-lived; if something stays popular for years, it is not just a craze. Related words: «crazy», «crazed» (wild with fear or anger). «Fad» means almost the same as «craze».
In the corpora
- What is his new craze?
- I wonder what new fad he has taken up now?» (a fad = a short-lived craze).
- Toad's motor-car craze was a real craze of rich people at the time.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «craze» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.