(n.) A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
(n.) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
(n.) To make hollow; to scoop out.
(v. i.) To dwell in a cave.
(v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(2) Biogastrone treatment influences the pain in a higher per cent as compared with Caved-S and oxyferroscorbon (p greater then 0.05), whereas regards the rest of the clinical symptoms -- no statistically significant difference was established.
(3) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
(4) It is the Altamira cave, not the Altimira cave as we had it.
(5) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(6) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
(7) Cave added that her organisation was engaged in a freedom of information battle with Cabinet Office minister Mark Harper, who is overseeing the coalition's plans to introduce a lobbying register.
(8) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(9) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
(10) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
(11) But in recent years, directors have sought out the likes of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood ( There Will Be Blood ), the Chemical Brothers ( Hanna ) and Nick Cave ( The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford ).
(12) And the confirmation that Greece won't get its bailout tranche unless its debt development is deemed sustainable means that Brussels has caved into IMF demands.
(13) In Pilgrim's Progress, Christian's path passes a cave in which two giants once dwelled.
(14) Many of the bodies are mummified, most of them were not interred, but deposited in caves.
(15) In the 20 years he was away, Malick moved to Paris and travelled the world, exploring caves in Nepal and the Alps as well as studying ancient civilisations and visiting Greece.
(16) Given that I'm trying to actually do some work while this whole thing is going on I'm not sure how successful I'll be before I cave in and *cough* go down the pub.
(17) The final band, at gone 4am, was Eigg's own metal band called, naturally, Massacre Cave.
(18) Only 11 cases of paratrigeminal epidermoid, including the cases localized in the Meckel's cave have been reported in the past literatures (Table 1).
(19) You see a cave with a hole.” She recovered thanks to god’s grace and good treatment at the government Hastings hospital, she said, but to her great sadness, her nine-year-old son, Clifford, will not come near her for fear.
(20) She and her friends recalled that this land was occupied by “cave-houses” – homes built from holes in the rock – in the 1950s.
Crave
Definition:
(v. t.) To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.
(v. t.) To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food.
(v. i.) To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
(2) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(3) Scores on the "dependent smoking" subscale of the smoking motivation questionnaire correlated significantly with overall withdrawal severity, craving, and increased irritability.
(4) A cocaine craving scale that has proven reliable and practical in clinical treatment research with cocaine-using subjects is presented.
(5) The smoking-specific item "craving" reflected this pattern, though in attenuated form, suggesting that the observed exacerbation of withdrawal symptomatology was not simply due to generalized dysphoria, as queried in both instruments.
(6) However, craving for alcohol was found to be significantly raised over baseline after exposure to low alcohol drinks.
(7) There are many "smoking cessation therapies" – gums, patches and sprays – that reduce cravings for cigarettes, while allowing the smoker to avoid the adverse effects of tobacco.
(8) Craving for alcohol decreased after both active and passive immunization against ADH.
(9) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
(10) In the regions concerned, there seems a craving for normality, to put back the clock on the destruction wrought by Isis.
(11) Only 32 per cent of women perceived that their cravings were linked to menstrual cycles.
(12) Principal-components analysis revealed six factors (Dysphoric Moods, Well-being, Physical Symptoms, Personal Space, Food Cravings, Depression) that accounted for 70% of the variance in daily ratings.
(13) In addition to high-protein foods, some of the women craved fruits and sweets.
(14) In the present study we met attitudes that made some people bear numet needs instead of craving their legal rights.
(15) Harry Kane has been craving opponents as accommodating as Bournemouth since the spring.
(16) This study reports on 285 smokers in cessation clinics who answered self-report measures of withdrawal symptoms and craving after quitting cigarettes "cold turkey."
(17) Decrease in cocaine craving correlated with decrease in plasma homovanillic acid (pHVA).
(18) Ibogaine, an indolalkylamine, has been claimed to be effective in abolishing drug craving in heroin and cocaine addicts.
(19) TV watching (i.e., nondietary activity) and subjective measures of craving and tension-anxiety also were assessed.
(20) Craving boldness is too often a euphemism for wishing Labour's predicament were something other than what it is; that there was a way to promise immediate improvement in everyone's lives without giving them money.