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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Raoul The sight of my distress has crazed you.
From Vautrin by Honoré de Balzac
Good faith, sir, I think the moon has crazed 'em all.—
From The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
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
Bertram, do not mock me when I tell you--passionate love has crazed my wits.
From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. by Thomas De Quincey
"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
