crazed 1 of 2

sometimes offensive

crazed

2 of 2

verb

past tense of craze

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of crazed
Verb
TikTok brims with both clever and crazed conspiracy theories. Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025 Phoenix’s crazed, killer Batman villain is back, and he’s now joined by Lady Gaga as the equally insane Harley Quinn. Jordan Moreau, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crazed
Adjective
  • Norman Mailer achieved a similar thing in his non-fiction novel about Gary Gilmore The Executioner’s Song—although, by the time the book was published in 1979, the seedy, psychotic world of Gilmore and his two girlfriends, Nicole and April Baker, hardly came as a revelation.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Since its introduction in 2022, only people with schizophrenia and other limited psychotic disorders have had access to the program.
    CalMatters, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Most people don’t commit violent acts, but in the hands of someone who’s fired up and mentally deranged, anything can happen.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The perpetrator is obviously deranged, but posts like Min’s might rile up and radicalize the next deranged person.
    Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Whether these experienced hands can keep up with their mad scientists is less clear.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • David’s flagship product is an almost Frankensteinian creation, more mad scientist than culinary.
    Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The outpouring of people on social media was insane.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The trailer teases spicy fights, insane games, and twists.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Or maybe he was just disturbed by my current condition.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Wasps will become aggravated if their nest is disturbed, so it's not recommended to knock down the nest.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Plus, Jeremiah had to still be winded by busting out that extended dance remix of his maniacal villain laugh from back on the beach.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In a desperate attempt to stop The Entity, President Erika Sloane (Angela Bassett) locates Ethan, who is now a rogue agent, and asks him to achieve the impossible by finding a way to shut the maniacal AI down.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Many young people may be too distracted by the likes of MrBeast, who dropped out of college and turned a passion for video creation into a billion-dollar global empire.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • If the White House grows distracted, or frustrated by slow progress, fighting could easily resume.
    Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Intensely creepy and increasingly unhinged, Alejandro Amenábar’s supernatural chiller owes much to Kidman’s unwavering commitment as a distressed, shotgun-wielding mother trying to protect her children from the hauntings plaguing their remote country house in ’40s Jersey.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson headline this unhinged British musical, in which Merlin the Magician (Starr, who also produced) tries to convince Nilsson's reluctant immortal to assume the family throne.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Crazed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crazed. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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