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To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.

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  1. v. t. To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.
  2. v. t. To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food.
  3. v. i. To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite.
  4. v. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
  5. v. plead or ask for earnestly
  6. 1. 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. Shak. Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark xv. 43. 2. 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. Edmund Gurney. Syn. -- To ask; seek; beg; beseech; implore; entreat; solicit; request; supplicate; adjure. To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite. Once one may crave for love. Suckling.
  7. To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, acraving appetite.Once one may crave for love. Suckling.
  8. v:100 v. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for v. plead or ask for earnestly