CRAVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does craved mean? 

• CRAVED (adjective)
  The adjective CRAVED has 1 sense:

1. wanted intensely

  Familiarity information: CRAVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRAVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wanted intensely

Synonyms:

craved; desired

Context example:

it produced the desired effect

Similar:

wanted (desired or wished for or sought)

 Context examples 

Since first she could stamp her little foot, she hath ever been able to get that for which she craved; and if she set her heart on thee, Alleyne, and thou on her, I do not think that this Spanish king, with his three-score thousand men, could hold you apart.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His nature craved love.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping, and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes’s ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Great had been the rejoicing amid the Romsey nuns when the Lady Maude Loring had craved admission into their order—for was she not sole child and heiress of the old knight, with farms and fiefs which she could bring to the great nunnery?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She held out her white, slim hand to him, but as he bent his lips over it she whisked away and was gone, leaving in his outstretched hand the very green veil for which poor Peter Terlake had craved in vain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I, poor simple fool, gave him the ale and all that he craved, leaving him alone too, because he said that a man's mind must be left untroubled when he had great work to do.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)