craze
verb (used with object)
to derange or impair the mind of; make insane.
has crazed
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present perfectof craze (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Sorrow has crazed my wits; long cramped by fetters My arm sinks powerless; and my wasted limbs, Palsied by dungeon-damps, would bend and totter Beneath yon armour's weight, once borne so lightly!
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
"Please your worship," said humbled Dickon, "Mistress Bridget had a daughter—one Mistress Mary—who went abroad, and has never been heard on since; and folk do say that has crazed her mother."
From The Poor Clare by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Good faith, sir, I think the moon has crazed 'em all.—
From The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
Now, Mr. Veal is more of a gentleman than to say she lies, but says a bad husband has crazed her; but she needs only present herself, and it will effectually confute that pretence.
From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Daniel Defoe
Raoul The sight of my distress has crazed you.
From Vautrin by Honoré de Balzac
