Craving

Definition: Craving

Craving

Noun

1. An intense desire for some particular thing.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "craving" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Craving

Desire

Adjective: desirous; desiring; Verb: inclined; (willing); partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear.

Greed

Grasping, craving,grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity.

Crosswords: Craving

I realized whenever Coach wanted to insult you he would call you by a certain junk food he was craving. (Oliver Beene; writing credit: Axel Boisen;)

I'm having a wicked shoe craving. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

But this is what you're craving (Californication; performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers)

The Craving (1919)

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Books

• Constant Craving A-Z: A Simple Guide to Understanding and Healing Your Food Cravings (Hay House Lifestyles) (reference)

• Craving for Ecstasy : How Our Passions Become Addictions and What We Can Do About Them (reference)

• The Craving Brain: A Bold New Approach to Breaking Free from Drug Addition, Overeating and Alcoholism, Gambling (reference)

• The Craving Brain: The Biobalance Approach to Controlling Addiction (reference)

• The Power in Your Money Personality: 8 Ways to Balance Your Urge to Splurge With Your Craving for Saving (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Craving (reference)

• Craving Theo (reference)

• Phenomenon of Craving (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Pure craving to see, to know, and to find out.

In so far as it satisfies the animal craving for warmth fire is a good

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Health

Because of salt loss, craving of salty foods also is common. (references)

High levels of craving for tobacco may persist for 6 months or longer. (references)

Those addicted to drugs suffer from a compulsive drug craving and usage and cannot quit by themselves. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "craving": craving for ♦ craving for admiration ♦ craving for love ♦ craving for power ♦ craving for wealth ♦ craving knifer ♦ craving power ♦ have a craving for smth.. Additional references.

Ending with "craving": sun-craving.

Albanian

mall për, gllënjkë (drachm, draft, drain, dram, draught, drink, drop, gulp, longing, mouthful, nip, peg, pull, sip, smack, sup, swallow, swig, thirst, traction), dëshirë (aim, appetite, desire, hunger, liking, looking for, love, notion, penchant, pleasure, prayer, want, wish). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حنين (longing, loving, nostalgia, yearning, yen), ‏توق شديد (lust, thirstiness), ‏تواق (anxious, forward, hungry, longing, raring, solicitous, striven, studious, thirsty, wishful, wistful), ‏رغبة (desire, device, disposition, hangnail, inclination, longing, lust, mind, readiness, stomach, will, willingness, wish). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страстно желание, ненаситен апетит, ненаситен (avid, covetous, grasping, greedy, insatiable, insatiate, ravenous, sateless, slakeless, voracious), жадуване (desire), жаден (ambitious, avid, concupiscent, droughty, dry, eager, hungry, thirsty), пощявка. (various references)

Chinese 

癮 (addiction), 热衷 (Crave, Craved). (various references)

Czech

touha (ambition, aspiration, desire, hunger, longing, thirst, urge, wish, yearning, yen), toužebné přání, neodolatelná touha (compelling desire, hankering). (various references)

Danish

trang (appetence, drive, impetus, impulse, instinct, nisus, striving, urge), begær (appetite, desire). (various references)

Dutch

zucht (desire, longing, tendency, want, wish), verlangen (ache, desire, long for, longing, want, wish, yearn), hunkering (longing), begeerte (alacrity, avidity, covetousness, desire, eagerness, greediness, want, wish). (various references)

Finnish

mieliteko (desire), himo (addiction to drink, desire, greed, lust, thirst). (various references)

French

grand besoin, envie, désir (crank), avoir soif de qch, avoir envie de qch, appétence, état de besoin. (various references)

German

verlangen (anxiety, appetite, appetites, ask, ask for, ask to see, call for, call out for, demand, desire, hankering, itch, long for, longing, lust, postulate, request, require, requisition, stipulate, to demand, to require, urge, want, yearn, yearning), heftiges Verlangen, flehend (appealing, beseeching, beseechingly, entreating, imploring, pleaded for, pleading, pleadingly, supplicatory). (various references)

Greek 

λαχτάρα (desire, longing, yearning). (various references)

Hebrew 

תשוק�" (desire, itch, lust, passion, rage, thirst, urge, yen), תאו�" (desire, indulgence, longing, lust, passion, voluptuousness), תאב (avid, desirous, eager, greedy, longing, thirsty), או�" (desire, longing, lust, passion, yearning), כלות (longing, yearning), כסוף (argent, desire, longed for, longing, silvern, yearning), �"שתוקקות (hankering, longing, solicitude, yearning), �'ע�'ועים (ache, hankering, longing, nostalgia, yearning). (various references)

Hungarian

sóvárgás (appetence, appetency, covetousness, cupidity, greed, hankering, longing, yearning). (various references)

Indonesian

idaman (appetite, ideal), idam (appetite (of a pregnant wpman), desire). (various references)

Italian

voglia (birthmark, desire, fancy, itch, longing, Mark, will, wish), smania (agitation, clamors, rampages, restlessness), desiderio ardente, brama (anxiety, appetence, appetency, desire, hankering, longing, lust, lustfulness), appetizione (appetence). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

慾 (avarice, desire, greed), 欲情 (desire, passion), 渇望　 (longing, thirsting), 渇望 (longing, thirsting). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かつぼう (longing, thirsting), よくじょう (bath, desire, passion, wing shape), よく (avarice, bath, being skilled in, desire, greed, nicely, properly, skilled in, skillfully, thoroughly, wants, well). (various references)

Korean 

간� �히 원함. (various references)

Manx

ard-vian (aspiration). (various references)

Pig Latin

avingcray.(various references)

Portuguese

súplica (appeal, application, deprecation, entreaty, obsecration, obtestation, petition, prayer, supplication), desejo (appetite, breathing, desirability, desire, elan, fancy, fantasy, list, longing, lust, phantasy, pleasure, want, will, wish), apetência (acceptance, appetence, palatability, tastiness), ânsia (agony, death throes, death-agony, desire, eagerness, longing, nausea, thirst, want, yearning). (various references)

Romanian

sete (covetousness, itch, itching, lust, thirst), poftã puternicã (eagerness), lacom (avid, covetous, devouringly, edacious, esurient, glutton, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, hungry, insatiable, lickerish, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wishful, wolfish). (various references)

Russian 

стремление (ambition, aspiration, intention [b], longing, objective, pursuit, rush, tendency), страстное желание (concupiscence, hanker, hankering). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

žudnja (avidity, eagerness, hanker, hankering, hunger, longing, lust, thirst, yen), žudan (avid, covetous, desirous, hungry, keen, longing), željan (avid, covetous, desirous, eager, keen, wishful). (various references)

Spanish

sed (thirst, thirstiness), deseo vehemente (itch), apetencia (appetence, appetency, appetite, hunger, relish), ansia (anguish, anxiety, appetency, eagerness, longing, urge, worry, yearning), anhelo (anxiety, appetite, desire, eagerness, hankering, longing, yearning). (various references)

Swedish

feg stackare (Craven, faint-heart), begär (appetite, avidity, covetousness, desire, eagerness, greediness, longing, lust, yen). (various references)

Turkish

hasret (hankering, longing, nostalgia, sick, sighed-for, yearning), arzu (affect, appetence, appetency, appetite, aspiration, conation, desire, hankering, hunger, intentness, longing, lust, maggot, passion, prurience, pruriency, rage, request, thirst, urge, want, will, willingness, wish, yearning, yen), özlem (aspiration, hankering, hunger, longing, missing, nostalgia, yearning, yen). (various references)

Ukrainian

жадоба (appetite, avarice, avidity, cupidity, desire, greed, yearn, yearning), прагнення (affectation, ambition, anxiety, appetency, appetition, aspiration, aspiring, desire, gravitation, hanker, hunger, libido, need, nisus, objective), палке бажання (hankering, longing), палке благання. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thèm muốn (covetousness, desire, envy, hankering), lòng khao khát (anxiety). (various references)

Welsh

chwant (appetite, desire, lust, want, wish), blys (lust). (various references)

fame, famem, fames, fami, famis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "craving": cravings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Craving" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cavinu, claving, crabing, Cravan, cravant, cravent, crevine. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carving.

-1 letter: arcing, caring, caving, racing, raving.

-2 letters: acing, cairn, cigar, garni, grain, invar, naric, ravin, vicar, vinca, virga.

-3 letters: agin, airn, cain, carn, crag, gain, girn, gnar, gran, grin, narc, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring, vagi, vain, vair, vang, viga, vina.

-4 letters: ain, air, ani, arc, can, car, cig, gan, gar, gin, nag, rag, ran.

+1 letter: carvings, cravings.

+2 letters: archiving, caverning, cavorting, clavering, cravening, grievance.

+3 letters: caravaning, caregiving, chivariing, crevassing, grievances, overacting, vagrancies.

+4 letters: caravanning, caregivings, cavaliering, chivareeing, incurvating, microwaving, overarching, overcalling, overcasting, oversaucing, woodcarving.

+5 letters: apperceiving, contravening, curveballing, divaricating, eviscerating, overcastings, overcharging, overclaiming, overcleaning, overclearing, overcoaching, overcramming, overmatching, overreaching, overreacting, reactivating, revictualing, vociferating, woodcarvings.