CRAVE
What does "CRAVE" mean?
To feel a powerful, often physical, desire for something.
Meanings
- To want something intensely, especially food or comfort. Pregnant, she suddenly craved pickles at midnight.
- To ask for or beg something earnestly. I crave your indulgence for one more moment. archaic
Word origin
From Old English 'crafian', meaning 'to demand or claim as a right'; the sense softened over centuries from formal demand to intense longing.
Remember it
To CRAVE is to be a slave to a wave of wanting - all three rhyme, and the wave keeps coming back.
A little poem
The fridge light hums at two a.m.
I came down craving I-don't-know-what-
and found the hunger was for then, not them.
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What it teaches
A craving tells you that you want; it never tells you what you actually need.
Quick facts
What does CRAVE mean?
To feel a powerful, often physical, desire for something.
Is CRAVE a valid word?
Yes — CRAVE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CRAVE?
CRAVE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CRAVE come from?
From Old English 'crafian', meaning 'to demand or claim as a right'; the sense softened over centuries from formal demand to intense longing.
What can CRAVE teach us?
A craving tells you that you want; it never tells you what you actually need.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.