Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A strong habitual desire or fancy. · A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad. · A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat. · Craziness; insanity.
To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. · To derange the intellect of; to render insane. · To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane. · To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
From Middle English crasen (“to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative. Cognate with Scots krass (“to crush, squeeze, wrinkle”), Icelandic krasa (“to crackle”), Norwegian krasa (“to shatter, crush”), Swedish krasa (“to crack, crackle”), Danish krase (“to crack, crackle”), Faroese kras (“small pieces”).
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- Inherited-form mentioncrasenenm · to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze
- Derivation mention*krasanon · to shatter
- Cognate mentionkrasssco · to crush, squeeze, wrinkle
- Cognate mentionkrasais · to crackle
- Cognate mentionkrasano · to shatter, crush
- Cognate mentionkrasasv · to crack, crackle
- Cognate mentionkraseda · to crack, crackle
- Cognate mentionkrasfo · small pieces
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