crazed

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
craze/kreɪz/

▶noun a widespread but short-lived enthusiasm for something. ▶verb

• 1 (usu. as adj. crazed) make or become wildly insane: a crazed killer.

• 2 produce a network of fine cracks on (a surface).

– derivatives
crazing noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘break, shatter, produce cracks’): perh. of Scand. origin.