Crake vs Craze - What's the difference?
crake | craze |
To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.
(obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
* The Mirror for Magistrates
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 nouns the difference between crake and craze
is that crake is any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills while craze is craziness; insanity.As verbs the difference between crake and craze
is that crake is to cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake while craze is to weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.crake
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Alternative forms
* CrakeEtymology 1
From (etyl) , itself onomatopoeic. (Rallidae)Derived terms
* Baillon's crake * brown crake * Colombian crake * corncrake * cracker * water crakeVerb
(crak)Etymology 2
See crackVerb
(crak)- Each man may crake of that which was his own.
Anagrams
* *craze
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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.
