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Crazes vs Razes - What's the difference?

crazes | razes |

As verbs the difference between crazes and razes

is that crazes is (craze) while razes is (raze).

crazes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (craze)

  • 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.
  • razes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (raze)
  • ----

    raze

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) raser

    Verb

    (raz)
  • To demolish; to level to the ground.
  • The word ‘laconic’ derives from Lakon (“person from Lakonia”) the district around Sparta in southern Greece in ancient times, whose inhabitants were famous for their brevity of speech. When threatened them with, “If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta,” the Spartans’ reply was, “If.”
  • To scrape as if with a razor.
  • Synonyms
    * See also

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)
  • (rhizome of ginger).
  • Anagrams

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