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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

... and by the manner in which they drew their cloaks about them, they made evident their wish to retire. Donna Violetta craved a blessing, and after the usual compliments, and a short dialogue of courtesy, she and her companion withdrew to ...

— The Bravo • J. Fenimore Cooper

... isolation he craved was never to be his; but the isolation of spirit essential to leadership, whether of thought or action, grew year by year, so that in his own household he was veritably "in it but not ...

— The Forged Coupon and Other Stories • Leo Tolstoy

... distrust. Nay, more, it will make us disbelieve the tales in 'The Zincali' and 'The Bible in Spain.'" Another critic found "a false dream in the place of reality, a shadowy nothing in the place of that something all who had read 'The Bible in Spain' craved and hoped for from his pen." His friend, William Bodham Donne, in "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine," explained how "Lavengro" was "not exactly what the public had been expecting." Another friend, Whitwell Elwin, in the "Quarterly Review," reviewing "Lavengro" and its continuation, "The Romany ...

— George Borrow - The Man and His Books • Edward Thomas

... said to her husband, "Listen, Kahauokapaka! the spawn of the manini come before my eyes; go after them, therefore, while they are yet afloat in the membrane; possibly when you bring the manini spawn, I shall be eased of the child; this is the first time my labor has been hard, and that I have craved the young of the manini; go ...

— The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai • Anonymous

... Sweden acquired independence of Denmark near the end of the first quarter of the sixteenth century. The liberation of Norway was delayed until the era of Napoleon, and when it came it meant, not the independence which the Norwegians craved, but forced affiliation with their more numerous and more powerful neighbors on the east. The succession of events by which the new arrangement was brought about was engineered principally by Napoleon's ex-marshal Bernadotte. May 28, 1810, Prince Charles Augustus of Augustenburg, whom the ...

— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg

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