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verb

Crave v. t. (past & past part. craved; pres. part. craving)

To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore. "I crave your honor's pardon." "Joseph... went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus."

To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food. "His path is one that eminently craves weary walking."

Synonyms: To ask; seek; beg; beseech; implore; entreat; solicit; request; supplicate; adjure.

Crave v. i. To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite. "Once one may crave for love."

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Etymology of 'Craved'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Craved" Quotes from Famous Books

... the mountain-side back to my own place alone. The squirrels chattered at me, and the woodpecker rat-tat-tat-ed, and the woodchuck scurried away, and I hated them all. What company were they to me? I was lonely, and I craved the companionship ...

— Bear Brownie - The Life of a Bear • H. P. Robinson

... pity might have come to him, in which he, the possessor of knowledge, might have longed to offer consolation to some suffering fellow, and have found the helplessness of knowledge to console. Browning's imagination as a romantic poet craved a romantic incident and a romantic mise-en-scene. In the house of the Greek conjuror at Constantinople, Paracelsus, now worn by his nine years' wanderings, with all their stress and strain, his hair already streaked with grey, his spirit somewhat ...

— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden

... in the free fulfilment of the purposes for which nature intended them—the Mahars, too, might consider our welfare better conserved in captivity than among the dangers of the savage freedom we craved. Naturally, I was next impelled to inquire their ...

— Pellucidar • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... because her thinking and reading seemed to be in the byways rather than the highways of ordinary culture. If she made a figure of speech, it was something noticeably original; if she quoted an author, it was one unfamiliar though forcible. And so she constantly supplied my mind with novelties which I craved, and became like a new education to me. One forenoon, a misty one, we were out on the beach alone, wrapped up in water-proofs, pacing up and down the sands, and watching the grey sullen sea, or admiring the way in which ...

— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor

... Cherubini's. Forty years later I heard it again, and better sung; but at that time I needed nothing better. It was sung by four male voices, and rose into a region of thrilling passion, such as my heart had always dimly craved and hungered after, but which now first interpreted itself, as a ...

— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey

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