acraze

• acrase

From French acraser (“to break, burst, craze, bruise, crush”), same as écraser (“to squash”), from Middle French ecraser (“to squash”), from Middle English crasen (“to break, shatter”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”). More at craze.

• Rhymes: -eɪz

acraze (third-person singular simple present acrazes, present participle acrazing, simple past and past participle acrazed)

1. (transitive) To weaken, impair, or enfeeble in mind, body, or estate; craze.

• “acraze”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.