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craze

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Craze is a 1974 film directed by Freddie Francis . It stars Jack Palance as a psychotic antiques dealer who sacrifices women to the statue of an African god.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" [syn: fad , furor , furore , cult , rage ] state of violent mental agitation [syn: delirium , frenzy , fury , hysteria ] a fine crack in ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Craziness; insanity. 2 A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet. 3 A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze. 4 (cx ceramics English) A crack in the glaze ...

Usage examples of craze.

Bad stories came down about Blackfeet and Cree, Atsina and Crow and Nakodabi Assiniboin, becoming crazed on spirit water and hurting or killing each other.

It had changed into a mad, crazed thing no more like a bluetick hound than a butterfly was like a scorpion.

He had been too weak to carry them out for burial, and everyone else still alive in the town was too crazed or sick to help him, so he had just gotten up, covered each molded corpse with a buffalo robe, and left them inside, and had shut up the lodge and blocked the door with a bullboat to keep dogs from getting in.

One of those Dadaists or Cubists or Surrealists, whatever they were called, whose crazed paintings, sculptures, and writings revealed that their makers were rotten with sin and syphilis.

Presidente Viera was assassinated during her third term in office by a crazed divisionist zealot.

Everybody knows all about the Pythagorean craze, its rise in Boston, its rapid spread, and its subsequent consolidation with mental and Christian science, theosophy, hypnotism, the Salvation Army, the Shakers, the Dunkards, and the mind-cure cult, upon a business basis.

Science has its fads and crazes, like anything else: string theory, eugenics, mesmerism.

We need go back no further than a generation to find abundant examples of eccentricities of style and expression, of crazes over some author or some book, as unaccountable on principles of art as many of the fashions in social life.

At the height of the Fuzzy craze, the three of them had kidnapped some Fuzzies and trained them to get into the Company gem vault through the ventilation system.

DOOM PATROL deploys against them its vision of crazed flux in a decentered, goofily hyperreal world.

Hunter slammed a fist into the hides he sat on, a crazed look welling in his eyes.

Crazed by thirst after their long dusty dig down from the summit, the Hyksos gang and the tavern owner threw themselves into the sluggish stream to drink their fill and then some.

It was hard, even for imps crazed with the black drink, to throw oneself within the range of that dragonsword, that shining ribbon of lethal steel.

Crazed mobs rioted up and down the street, and swept right past us without even slowing.

Dita had studied the work of the Go-captains and she knew well enough that if the paleocortex was lost the personality became intellectually sane, but emotionally crazed.