crave
/kɹeɪv/ verb C1- To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for. · to crave for peace· to crave after wealth
He/she/it craves · Past craved · Past participle craved · -ing form craving
Verb forms
- Base form
- crave
- He/she/it
- craves
- Past
- craved
- Past participle
- craved
- -ing form
- craving
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Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping, and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes’s ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes.
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