Escapade vs Craze - What's the difference?
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A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
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* 1816 , , The Antiquary - Volume II , ch. 9:
* 1918 , , Piccadilly Jim , ch. 1:
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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 escapade and craze
is that escapade is a daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention while craze is craziness; insanity.As a verb craze is
to weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.escapade
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Manner of living among the Portugueze here is, with the utmost Frugality and Temperance. . . . The best of them (excepting the Governor now and then) neither pay nor receive any Visits of Escapade or Recreation.
- [Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"
- He is always doing something to make himself notorious. There was that breach-of-promise case, and that fight at the political meeting, and his escapades at Monte Carlo.
The Adjustment Bureau''" (film review), ''Time (retrieved 23 March 2014):
- He seems on the verge of winning the New York Senate election when the New York Post runs a photo of David’s exposed butt in a mooning escapade from his college days.
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.