CRAVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crave mean? 

• CRAVE (verb)
  The verb CRAVE has 2 senses:

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

2. plead or ask for earnestly

  Familiarity information: CRAVE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they crave    ... he / she / it craves   
Past simple: craved   
Past participle: craved   
-ing form: craving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

crave; hunger; lust; starve; thirst

Hypernyms (to "crave" is one way to...):

desire; want (feel or have a desire for; want strongly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

They crave more bread

Derivation:

craving (an intense desire for some particular thing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Plead or ask for earnestly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "crave" is one way to...):

beg; implore; pray (call upon in supplication; entreat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Administration of nicotine may prevent nicotine craving and may help with the withdrawal symptoms associated with smoking cessation.

(Nicotine lozenge, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical features may include nicotine craving, irritability, anxiety, depression and increased appetite.

(Nicotine Withdrawal, NCI Thesaurus)

They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It has to be noted that not all drug craving is based on withdrawal, since craving can often occur in the absence of withdrawal.

(Craving, NCI Thesaurus)

You also get a strong craving to take the drug again to try to feel better.

(Cocaine, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

The researchers also found that increasing blood aldosterone concentrations correlated with increasing levels of both alcohol craving and anxiety.

(NIH findings link aldosterone with alcohol use disorder, National Institutes of Health)

An uncontrollable craving, seeking, and use of a substance, such as a drug or alcohol.

(Addiction, NCI Dictionary)

This helps improve mood and may reduce a person’s craving for nicotine.

(Aventyl, NCI Dictionary)

“And I have one favor to crave from you,” added the lady of the castle, as Alleyne turned to leave their presence.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The craving was all the stronger because I durst not speak openly about it, for the least hint of it brought the tears into my mother’s eyes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)