Crave

Definition: Crave

Crave

Verb

1. Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.

2. Plead or ask for earnestly.

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

Date "crave" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Crave

Desire

Be hungry; play a good knife and fork; hunger after, thirst after, crave after, lust after, itch after, hanker after, run mad after; raven for, die for; burn to.

Greed

Verb: covet, crave (desire); grasp; exact, extort.

Request

Verb: request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; apply to, call to, put to; call upon, call for; make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition; make application, make a requisition; ask trouble, ask one for; claim; (demand); offer up prayers; (worship); whistle for.

Crosswords: Crave

Red meat, we crave sustenance (Twister; writing credit: Michael Crichton; Anne-Marie Martin)

Well, I do sometimes crave a nonfat yogurt afterwards (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

And the weird thing is, I crave pizza no more (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

No. Zombies are slow moving, dimwitted things that crave human flesh (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles)

It's times like this that you crave the strange (Freaky Links; writing credit: Mark Verheiden; Juan Carlos Coto)

Oblivion is all you crave (ADDICTED TO LOVE; performing artist: Robert Palmer)

I Crave Your Body (1961)

Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)

I Crave Rock & Roll (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Table Before Me: Devotions for Overeaters Who Crave the Power of God (reference)

• Becoming: Smokefree, Crave Free, Fat Free (reference)

• Cat Nips: Feline Cusine: Cats You'll Love and the Homemade Treats They Crave (reference)

• Crave (reference)

• Dog Bites!: Canine Cuisine/Dogs You'll Love and the Homemade Treats They Crave (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Crave (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

By common-wealth, I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community, which the Latines signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language, is common-wealth, and most properly expresses such a society of men, which community or city in English does not; for there may be subordinate communities in a government; and city amongst us has a quite different notion from common-wealth: and therefore, to avoid ambiguity, I crave leave to use the word common-wealth in that sense, in which I find it used by King James the first; and I take it to be its genuine signification; which if any body dislike, I consent with him to change it for a better. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Humbly on my knee I crave your blessing

Be it life or death, we crave only reality

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "crave": crave for. Additional references.

Albanian

vdes për, kërkoj (aim, apply, arrogate, ask, ask for, assert, beg, call for, charge, claim, comb, cost, cry for, demand, dig, dig for, exact, feel, fish for, fossick, go after, inquire, look, look for, looking for, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, pick, postulate, quest, ransack, request, rummage, search, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want), dëshiroj (aspire, care, choose, desiderate, desire, like, list, love, please, want, wish, wish for). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حن (long for, slobber, wish for, yearn), ‏تاق (ache, aim, aspire, desire, gasp, hanker, hone, hunger, pant, want, wish, yearn), ‏طلب ملتمسا, ‏إلتمس (ask, beg, beseech, canvass, cry, implore, petition, plead, request, solicit, sue, woo), ‏إحتاج (demand, lack, need, require, run out, want), ‏رغب (care, choose, desire, feel like, give the willies, interest, want, will, wish). (various references)

Bulgarian 

копнея (ache, hanker, hunger, languish, long, pant, pine, sigh, weary, yearn, yen), моля за (request), прося (beg, beseech, cadge, solicit), пощява ми се (feel like), пожелавам (covet, want, will, wish). (various references)

Chinese 

热衷 (Craved, Craving), 切望 (eager, longing). (various references)

Czech

vyžádat si, toužit po (covet, long for, pine, sigh, suspire), dožadovat se (demand, postulate, requisition). (various references)

Farsi 

طلبیدن (Ask, Invite, Seek), ارزوکردن (Aspire, Desire, Wish, Yearn), اشتیاق داشتن (Aspire, Hanker, Hunger, Thirst, Yearn). (various references)

French

solliciter (cry), demander, désirer ardemment, avoir grand besoin, avoir besoin physiologique, avoir besoin. (various references)

German

erflehen (beg, beseech, implore). (various references)

Greek 

ποθώ (desire, long, yearn, yearn for), υπερεπιθυμώ (hanker, long), εκλιπαρώ (adjure, entreat, solicit, supplicate), λαχταρώ (ache, desire, hanker, long for, thrill, yearn). (various references)

Hebrew 

לאוות (covet, desire eagerly, long for, wish, yearn), ל�"תאוות (covet, desire, long for, lust), ל�"שתוקק (desire, hanker, hunger, long for, lust, strive, want, wish for, yearn). (various references)

Hungarian

sóvárog (ache, aspire, aspire to, hanker, hope for, long for, to crave, to hanker, to hunger, to pine, to yammer, to yearn, yammer, yearn), epedezik. (various references)

Indonesian

mendambakan (long for, yearn), etek. (various references)

Italian

chiedere con insistenza, intagliare (carve, engrave, incise, indent, Nick, notch, whittle), implorare (beg, beseech, entreat, implore, plead, pray), desiderare fortemente, bramare (aspire, covet, desire, hanker, hunger, long, long for, lust, yearn). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

平�'��'望む (to crave for peace). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

へいわ�'のぞむ (to crave for peace). (various references)

Korean 

간� �히 원하십시�". (various references)

Manx

guee (er) (appeal, beg, begging, beseech, beseeching, curse; craving, cursing, entreat, invoke, oath taking, pray, praying, swear, swear by), guee (appeal, beg, begging, beseech, beseeching, curse; craving, cursing, entreat, invoke, oath taking, pray, praying, swear, swear by). (various references)

Pig Latin

avecray.(various references)

Portuguese

suspirar por (hanker, pant), suplicar (beg, beseech, entreat, implore, invoke, obtest, pray, supplicate), precisar (define, determine, need, require, specify, take, to need), implorar (beg, beseech, conjure, deprecate, file, implore, invoke, petition, pray, supplicate), desejar (ache, aspire, care, covet, desiderate, desire, fancy, have an eye for, hunger, like, list, please, will, wish), almejar (ache, long for, woo). (various references)

Romanian

solicita (apply for, attract, beg, call on, cause, drive, entail, have, invite, request, require, require smth. of smb., solicit, strain, stress), râvni la, implora (adjure, beseech, conjure, entreat, implore, supplicate), dori mult, aştepta cu nerãbdare (be on the tiptoe of expectation). (various references)

Russian 

умолять (beg, beseech, entreat, implore, implored, supplicate), требовать (ask for, call for, call for a, claim, cry for, demand, necessitate, require, solicit, take), жаждать (covet, hanker, starve, yearn), просить (ask, asked, beg, beseech, plead, pleaded, pled, pray, supplicate). (various references)

Scottish

agair (claim, plead). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

žudeti (ache, aspire, covet, hanker, hunger, long for, lust, thirst, yearn), žedneti (become thirsty). (various references)

Spanish

tallar (carve, cut, incise, measure, shape, whittle, work), rogar a (beg, beseech, bid, entreat), pedir (apply for, ask, ask for, beg, bid, book, call for, charge, demand, indent for, inquire, invite, live off, live on, order, postulate for, put upon, request, require, reserve, seek, sue for, summon, supplicate, tell off, to ask for, to order, treat), implorar (beseech, implore, invoke, plead, solicit), apetecer (attract, desiderate, love, lust for). (various references)

Swedish

längta efter (ache, ache for, desiderate, long for, look forward to, yearn), be om (invite, pray). (various references)

Turkish

can atmak (ache for, ache to, aspire, be dying for, die for, hanker, have an itch to, itch, itch to, jump at, lick one's chops, long, look forward to, raring to, set one's heart on), yalvarmak (adjure, appeal, beg, beseech, conjure, desire, entreat, implore, intercede, invoke, plead, pray, sit up and beg, solicit, supplicate), hasret olmak (be starved, long, pine for, Raven, regret, yearn), çok istemek (aspire, be thirsty for, covet, gasp for smth., have an itch to, itch, itch to, raring to, set one's heart on, set one's mind on, slaver for). (various references)

Ukrainian

жадати (ache for, covet, crave for, hunger, pine, thirst, whim, will, wish for), благати (adjure, appeal, beg, beseech, conjure, cry, deprecate, entreat, implore, intercede, invoke, obsecrate, petition, plead, supplicate), просити (apply, ask, beg, beseech, bid, desire, obsecrate, request, seek), потребувати (affect, cost, need, require, suppose, want), палко бажати (long, pant after, pant for). (various references)

Welsh

crefu (beg, implore), ymhw+edd (beseech, implore), ffrawddunio (wheedle), blysio (lust). (various references)

aves, avesque, hares, have, havete. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "crave": craved, craven, cravened, cravening, cravenly, cravenness, cravennesses, cravens, craver, cravers, craves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crave" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carpave, cavek, cavex, Cerrava, chave, clavi, crabe, crabey, crace, crae, craf, crage, crale, cravel, cravet, cravil, cref, crev, Creva, creve, crevy, crife, criv, crive, cruf, eravi, frave, icraf, krava, krave, Krbava, srave, wrave. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carve, caver.

-1 letter: acre, aver, care, cave, race, rave, vera.

-2 letters: ace, arc, are, ave, car, ear, era, rec, rev, vac, var.

-3 letters: ae, ar, er, re.

+1 letter: carved, carvel, carven, carver, carves, cavern, cavers, claver, craved, craven, craver, craves.

+2 letters: archive, avarice, cadaver, caravel, carvels, carvers, caverns, caviare, caviler, clavers, clavier, cleaver, cravens, cravers, overact, precava, scarves, valeric, varices, verruca, viscera.

+3 letters: acervate, acervuli, achiever, advancer, archived, archives, avarices, avoucher, cadavers, canvaser, caravels, cavalero, cavalier, caveator, caverned, caviares, cavilers, caviller, cavorted, cavorter, cervelas, cervelat, cervical, chivaree, clavered, claviers, cleavers, conferva, coverage, coverall, cravened, cravenly, creative, crevalle, crevasse, curative, czarevna, evocator, havocker, laverock, maverick, navicert, novercal, overacts, overarch, overcall, overcame, overcast, overcoat, overcram, precavae, precaval, reactive, revanche, tractive, vambrace, variance, varicose, veracity, verdancy, vernacle, veronica, verrucae, vertical, vibrance, vicarage, vicarate, vicenary, visceral.