† acraze, v. Obs.
(əˈkreɪz)
Also 6 acrase, 6–7 accrase, accraise, accraze.
[Either formed on Eng. vb. craze, with a- prefix 10, or a. Fr. acrase-r (Cotgr. accrazer) var. of écraser (see a- prefix 9) f. a simple *craser, cogn. w. Eng. craze, crash, f. Norse kras-a, krasa, to shiver, crash. a- refashioned as ac- in 6 after words f. L.]
To weaken, impair, enfeeble.
| 1549 Cheke Hurt of Sedition (1641) 38 With cold in the nights which acrazeth the body. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. III. 1049/2 By glutting of meats which weakeneth the bodie, and with cold in the nights which accraseth the bodie. |