Avid vs Craze - What's the difference?
avid | craze |
enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy
* 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 3
Craziness; insanity.
A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
* Milton
To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
* Tillotson
* Shakespeare
To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
* Keats
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
* Milton
(intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
As an adjective avid
is enthusiastic; passionate; longing eagerly; eager; greedy.As a noun craze is
craziness; insanity.As a verb craze is
to weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.avid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm an avid reader.
- We waited for something to happen, for anything to happen, we were avid for some event to unfold itself out of the burning nothing to save us.
Derived terms
* avidly * avidityAnagrams
*craze
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(craz)- Till length of years, / And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.
- any man that is crazed and out of his wits
- Grief hath crazed my wits.
- She would weep and he would craze .
- God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, / And craze their chariot wheels.