Synonyms for crave
Definitions
- v. 1
To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
Forms
- Past participle
- craved
e.g. craved → wanted, desired, yearned, thirsted…
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Crave and request are somewhat formal terms; crave has almost disappeared from conversation; request would seem distant between parent and child.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- desire It is true that we desire to live in a small town.
- thirst He satisfied his thirst with a large glass of beer.
- yearn I yearn for the days when we communicated effortlessly.
- hanker I began to hanker after eating an authentic pretzel.
- beg I beg your pardon; I didn't quite catch your name.
- implore "I implore you not to do this, Jack," she cried.
By length
- 3 letters
- ask1, beg1
- 4 letters
- want1, need1, long1, pray1, lust1, pant1
- 5 letters
- plead1, yearn1
- 6 letters
- choose1, desire3, affect2, hunger2, thirst1, aspire2, starve1, invoke2, hanker2, adjure, obtest
- 7 letters
- request2, solicit3, conjure2, implore2, beseech2, entreat
- 8 letters
- petition3
- 9 letters
- importune
- 10 letters
- supplicate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (desire3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- souhaiter