different between outburst vs craze

English

Etymology

From Middle English outbersten, outbresten, equivalent to out- +? burst. Cognate with Dutch uitbarsten (“to erupt; burst out”), German ausbersten (“to burst out; erupt”).

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?a?t?b?st/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?a?t?b??st/
• Noun:
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?a?t?b?st/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?a?t?b??st/
• Hyphenation: out?burst

Verb

outburst (third-person singular simple present outbursts, present participle outbursting, simple past outburst or outbrast, past participle outburst or outbursten)

1. (intransitive) To burst out.

Noun

outburst (plural outbursts)

1. a sudden, often violent expression of emotion or activity.

   The man greeted us with an outburst of invective.

Synonyms

• explosion

Antonyms

• inburst

Translations

Anagrams

• burst out, subtutor

English

Alternative forms

• crase, craise, craize (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English crasen (“to crush, break, break to pieces, shatter, craze”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative.

Cognate with Danish krase (“to crack, crackle”), Swedish krasa (“to crack, crackle”), Norwegian krasa (“to shatter, crush”), Icelandic krasa (“to crackle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?e?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z

Noun

craze (plural crazes)

1. (archaic) craziness; insanity.
2. A strong habitual desire or fancy.
3. A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad
   • 2012, Alan Titchmarsh, The Complete Countryman: A User's Guide to Traditional Skills and Lost Crafts

     Winemaking was a huge craze in the 1970s, when affordable package holidays to the continent gave people a taste for winedrinking, but the recession made it hard to afford off-license prices back home.

4. (ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.

Derived terms

• becraze
• crazy

Translations

Verb

craze (third-person singular simple present crazes, present participle crazing, simple past and past participle crazed)

1. (archaic) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
2. To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     any man […] that is crazed and out of his wits
3. To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
4. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Rezac