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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crazed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She was once attacked by a crazed fan.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A crazed killer plunged a knife into his eye as he waited on a crowded platform.
▪ An even more tragic fate befell many who, amid the crazed stampede, were able to get out of the fort.
▪ Flagellants are crazed wanderers obsessed with the doom of the world.
▪ How safe would she be in her own flat, if some crazed person was determined to hunt her down?
▪ I have seen this before, he thought, still with his mind in that crazed slow motion.
▪ She stared in at Louisa like a crazed creature, silently beseeching help.
▪ There's Stansted Airport in Essex, whose massive tubular supports look like the work of a crazed plumber.
▪ There was something sad about Spring Mill now, with its crazed windows and its broken bricks, something a bit sinister.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crazed

Craze \Craze\ (kr[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crazed (kr[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crazing.] [OE. crasen to break, fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw. krasa to crackle, sl[*a] i kras, to break to pieces, F. ['e]craser to crush, fr. the Scand. Cf. Crash.]

  1. To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.

    God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels.
    --Milton.

  2. To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [Obs.]

    Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.
    --Milton.

  3. 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.

Wiktionary
crazed
  1. 1 Maddened, driven insane. 2 Covered with cracks (generally applied to porcelain). v

  2. (en-past of: craze)

WordNet
crazed

adj. driven insane [syn: deranged, half-crazed]

Usage examples of "crazed".

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.

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.

Dolores and Quilty write the rules for the games in the central section of Part Two, where she emerges as the successful strategist and playmaker, with skills that leave Humbert floundering as the crazed victim.

The necromancer, teeth bared and eyes widened, stared down the barrel of the firearm at the Roofman, crazed with greed.

I could say some crazed mourner ran into the office and stuck it to Spiro and then ran off.

His analyst, a crazed and boozy wetback named Geronimo Diaz, had, of course, a great deal to say about this.