What's the difference between crave and drave?

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.

Drave


Definition:

  • () old imp. of Drive.
  • () of Drive

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