crazen

English

Etymology

From craze +‎ -en (verbal suffix).

Verb

crazen (third-person singular simple present crazens, present participle crazening, simple past and past participle crazened)

1. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To make or become crazed or crazy
   • 1976, Gene Murray, Gang-bang bikers, page 7:

     His circumcised glans was in fact like a spearhead, able to penetrate any flesh with ease and just as difficult to dislodge. It had crazened the writhing asshole of several local farmboys who had tired of creaming into their sows […]

   • 2010, Jack Self, Remnants, page 309:

     Directly before this crazened stanchion was the remnants of the fire which they had seen, a neat and small device surrounded by stones as guard and allowed now to retreat to embers while its fuel for the coming night was stacked nearby, […]

   • 2012, Melanie Calvert, Freycinet, page 34:

     For a moment I wonder whether I should tell him the rest; that for some reason I saw that young woman with her face half eaten away, that I saw her somehow blending into, consumed by the landscape, that she was down on the pier surrounded by a crowd of men behaving like crazened, ravenous dogs, that she might even have been one of the dead women on the beach, twisted amongst the fish.

Anagrams

• cranze, zarnec