CRAVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does craving mean? 

• CRAVING (noun)
  The noun CRAVING has 1 sense:

1. an intense desire for some particular thing

  Familiarity information: CRAVING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An intense desire for some particular thing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("craving" is a kind of...):

desire (the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "craving"):

appetence; appetency; appetite (a feeling of craving something)

addiction (an abnormally strong craving)

Derivation:

crave (have a craving, appetite, or great desire for)

 Context examples 

Mental exhaustion did not produce a craving for liquor such as physical exhaustion did, and he had felt no need for it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

People who stopped using cocaine can still feel strong cravings for the drug, sometimes even years later.

(Cocaine, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

The full moon, November 12, will have you craving rest and withdrawing from the social scene over this weekend.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This helps improve mood and can lessen cravings for nicotine.

(Bupropion hydrochloride, NCI Dictionary)

Nicotine cravings are common after a person quits smoking and may come and go over time.

(Craving, NCI Dictionary)

This helps stop nicotine cravings and relieves symptoms that occur when a person is trying to quit smoking.

(Nicotine gum, NCI Dictionary)

He had a delight in cutting at the boys, which was like the satisfaction of a craving appetite.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I shall test him with his present craving and see how it will work out; then I shall know more.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A type of treatment that uses special products to give small, steady doses of nicotine to help stop cravings and relieve symptoms that occur when a person is trying to quit smoking.

(Nicotine Replacement, NCI Dictionary)

Neglect it—go on as heretofore, craving, whining, and idling—and suffer the results of your idiocy, however bad and insuperable they may be.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)