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What does "craze" mean?

Craze: To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [Obs.] Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs. Milton.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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.
  2. 3.To be crazed, or to act or appear as She would weep and he would craze. Keats.
  3. 4.To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
  4. 5.Craziness; insanity.
  5. 6.A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet. It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean dressed genteelly. Prof. Wilson.
  6. 7.A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the æsthetic craze. Various crazes concerning health and disease. W. Pater.

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