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crazed

UK/kɹeɪzd/US/kɹeɪzd/
adjectiveC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,802 of 15,258leans spoken

Crazed means driven frantic by rage, grief or pain. A crazed attacker, crazed with grief, a crazed look.

It describes a temporary state driven by something rather than an illness, which is what separates it from any clinical word. In pottery, crazed means covered in a network of fine cracks in the glaze, and that is the older sense of the word.

Definitions of crazed

  1. 1adjectivecrazedDriven frantic by rage, grief, or pain.C1

    “The dog, crazed with pain, bit the vet who was trying to help it.”

crazed is a state.

Also accepted in games: frenzied

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