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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 volumes piled up day and night at his elbow. For the first time in months he was in reach of a real library, just the kind of scholarly yet miscellaneous library, that his restless and impatient spirit craved. He was aware that the books he read, like the fugitive scenes on which he gazed, were merely a form of anesthetic: he swallowed them with the careless greed of the sufferer who seeks only to still pain and deaden memory. But they were beginning to produce in him a moral languor ...

— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton

... Very likely at the white gate below by the stream, 'Bias was standing in wait to knock his head off. Cai did not care. Nothing mattered now—nothing but a desire to follow 'Bias and have another word with him. It might even be. . . . But no: 'Bias was lost to him, lost irrevocably. Yet he craved to follow, catch up with him, plead for one ...

— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... unto her did go; They craved her favour, but still she said no; I would not wish gentles to marry with me; Yet ever they ...

— English Songs and Ballads • Various

... deserved. It was intended for the eyes of Beverly Calhoun alone. By means of the vile accusations, false though they were, he hoped to terrorize her into submission. He longed to possess this lithe, beautiful creature from over the sea. In all his life he had not hungered for anything as he now craved Beverly Calhoun. He saw that his position in the army was rendered insecure by the events of the last day. A bold, vicious stroke was his only means for securing the prize he longed for more than he longed for honor ...

— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... words, the fashion of her countenance was changed to a sweet entreaty and command, such as few could have beheld and denied her what she craved, and she laid her hand lightly ...

— A Monk of Fife • Andrew Lang

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