What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Craze vs X - What's the difference?

craze | x |

As a noun craze

is craziness; insanity.

As a verb craze

is to weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

craze

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Verb

    (craz)
  • To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
  • * Milton
  • Till length of years, / And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.
  • To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
  • * Tillotson
  • any man that is crazed and out of his wits
  • * Shakespeare
  • Grief hath crazed my wits.
  • To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
  • * Keats
  • She would weep and he would craze .
  • (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
  • * Milton
  • God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, / And craze their chariot wheels.
  • (intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
  • x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----