to craze

Examples

• All

• When exposed to heat, the ceramic bowl began to craze, leaving fine cracks on its surface.

• Some adhesives used to bond plastics, such as cyanoacrylates, react with their substrates, causing them to craze or become cloudy, marring their appearance.

  Academic text (2000)

• The heavy safety glass was crazed to translucence, but had not shattered: a very minor mercy, Heikki thought.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Dymax Corp. of Torrington, Conn., developed its ultraviolet/visible light curing 3-20556 adhesive to serve a wide variety of plastics without crazing them.

  Academic text (2000)

• The old vases in the museum have crazed over time, exhibiting intricate patterns of tiny fractures.

• The artist noticed that the glaze on her pottery would craze if she applied it too thickly.

Synonyms

C

to check

vsto craze

1 8.2

Get small cracks on the surface when it dries or gets old

refers to a widespread fine network rather than isolated small splits

C

crackle

vsto craze

6.5

With a surface that has many fine breaks in the glaze

is about forming the fine network rather than just its appearance

Antonyms

R

repair

352 2.3

Work done to fix something that is broken

How Cracked

to shatter

72 2.8

to craze

• Specialized

1 8.4

to crack

311 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology