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English-Thai Dictionary

crave

VI ปรารถนา ต้องการ pard-ta-nar

crave

VT ปรารถนา ต้องการ desire covet need pard-ta-nar

crave for

PHRV ปรารถนา อย่าง ควบคุม ไม่ได้ กระหาย อยากได้ อย่างมาก prad-ta-na-yang-kuab-kum-mai-dai

crave for

PHRV อ้อนวอน (แกม บังคับ วิงวอน ขอร้อง on-won

craven

ADJ ขี้ขลาด cowardly timid ke-kad

cravenly

ADV อย่าง ขี้ขลาด cowardly timidly yang-ke-kad

cravenness

ADJ ความขี้ขลาด cowardliness cowardice kwam-ke-kad

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CRAVE

v.t. 1. To ask with earnestness or importunity; to beseech; to implore; to ask with submission or humility, as a dependent; to beg; to entreat.
As for my nobler friends, I crave their pardons.
Joseph--went in boldly to Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark 15:43.
2. To call for, as a gratification; to long for; to require or demand, as a passion or appetite; as, the stomach or appetite craves food.
3. Sometimes intransitively, with for before the thing sought; as, I crave for mercy.

CRAVED

pp. Asked for with earnestness; implored; entreated; longed for; required.

CRAVEN, CRAVENT, CRAVANT

n. 1. A word of obloquy, used formerly by one vanquished in trial by battle, and yielding to the conqueror. Hence, a recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted spiritless fellow.
2. A vanquished, dispirited cock.

CRAVEN

v.t.To make recreant, weak or cowardly.

CRAVER

n.One who craves or begs.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CRAVE

Crave (krv ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Craved (kr; p pr. & vb. n. Craving. ]Etym: [AS. crafian; akin to Icel. krefia, Sw. kr, Dan. kr. ]

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.

CRAVE

CRAVE Crave, v. i.

Defn: To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite. Once one may crave for love. Suckling.

CRAVEN

Cra "ven (kr "v'n ), a. Etym: [OE. cravant, cravaunde, OF. cravant struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush, strike down, fr. an assumed LL. crepantare, fr. L. crepans, p. pr. of crepare to break, crack, rattle. Cf. Crevice, Crepitate. ]

Defn: Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart. " Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay.

CRAVEN

Cra "ven, n. Etym: [Formerly written also cravant and cravent.]

Defn: A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow. See Recreant, n. King Henry. Is it fit this soldier keep his oath Fluellen. He is a craven and a villain else. Shak.

Syn. -- Coward; poltroon; dastard.

CRAVEN

Cra "ven, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cravened (-v'nd );p. pr. & vb. n.Cravening.]

Defn: To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly. [Obs. ] There is a prohibition so divine, That cravens my weak hand. Shak.

CRAVER

CRAVER Crav "er (krv "r ), n.

Defn: One who craves or begs.

New American Oxford Dictionary

crave

crave |krāv kreɪv | ▶verb [ with obj. ] feel a powerful desire for (something ): a program to give the infants the human touch they crave. • dated beg for (something ): I must crave your indulgence. DERIVATIVES crav er noun ORIGIN Old English crafian (in the sense ‘demand, claim as a right ’), of Germanic origin; related to Swedish kräva, Danish kræve ‘demand. ’ The current sense dates from late Middle English.

craven

cra ven |ˈkrāvən ˈkreɪvən | ▶adjective contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly: a craven abdication of his moral duty. ▶noun archaic a cowardly person. DERIVATIVES cra ven ly adverb, cra ven ness noun ORIGIN Middle English cravant ‘defeated, ’ perhaps via Anglo-Norman French from Old French cravante, past participle of cravanter ‘crush, overwhelm, ’ based on Latin crepare ‘burst. ’ The change in the ending in the 17th cent. was due to association with past participles ending in -en (see -en 3 ).

Oxford Dictionary

crave

crave |kreɪv | ▶verb [ with obj. ] feel a powerful desire for (something ): if only she had shown her daughter the love she craved | [ no obj. ] : Will craved for family life. • archaic ask for: I must crave your indulgence. DERIVATIVES craver noun ORIGIN Old English crafian (in the sense ‘demand, claim as a right ’), of Germanic origin; related to Swedish kräva, Danish kræve ‘demand ’. The current sense dates from late Middle English.

craven

cra ¦ven |ˈkreɪv (ə )n | ▶adjective contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly: a craven abdication of his moral duty. ▶noun archaic a cowardly person. DERIVATIVES cravenly adverb, cravenness |ˈkreɪv (ə )nnɪs |noun ORIGIN Middle English cravant ‘defeated ’, perhaps via Anglo-Norman French from Old French cravante, past participle of cravanter ‘crush, overwhelm ’, based on Latin crepare ‘burst ’. The change in the ending in the 17th cent. was due to association with past participles ending in -en (see -en 3 ).

American Oxford Thesaurus

crave

crave verb he craved professional recognition: long for, yearn for, desire, want, wish for, hunger for, thirst for, sigh for, pine for, hanker after, covet, lust after, ache for, set one's heart on, dream of, be bent on; informal have a yen for, have a jones for, itch for, be dying for.

craven

craven adjective a craven surrender: cowardly, lily-livered, faint-hearted, chicken-hearted, spineless, timid, timorous, fearful, pusillanimous, weak, feeble; informal yellow, chicken, weak-kneed, gutless, yellow-bellied, wimpish; contemptible, abject, ignominious. ANTONYMS brave.

Oxford Thesaurus

crave

crave verb he craved professional recognition: long for, yearn for, hunger for, thirst for, dream of, aspire to, set one's heart on, have as one's aim, have as one's goal, seek, be bent on; desire, want, hope for, hanker after, wish for; sigh for, pant for, pine for; lust after, covet; informal have a yen for, itch for, be dying for; archaic be athirst for, be desirous of; rare desiderate, suspire for.

craven

craven adjective a craven surrender. See cowardly.

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

crave

crave /kreɪv /動詞～s /-z /; ～d /-d /; craving 他動詞 1 〈食べ物成功など〉を渇望する , 抑えきれないほど強く欲する ; 〖～ to do 〗しきりに … したがる ▸ crave drugs [alcohol ]麻薬 [アルコール ]を強く欲しがる ▸ crave success 成功を渇望する 2 ｟かたく古｠〈物など〉を懇願する .自動詞 «…を » 切望 [渇望 ]する «for , after » ; «…を » 懇願する «for » .

craven

cra ven /kréɪv (ə )n /形容詞｟かたい書非難して｠〈人が〉ひどく臆病な, 意気地のない (cowardly ).名詞 C 臆病者 .～ly 副詞～ness 名詞