(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.
Engrave
Definition:
(v. t.) To deposit in the grave; to bury.
(v. t.) To cut in; to make by incision.
(v. t.) To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.
(v. t.) To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.
(v. t.) To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.
Example Sentences:
(1) From then on, different features were added over the years, including more use of colour, watermark portraits of the queen, highly detailed machine engravings, reflective foil patches and holographic strips.
(2) The authors devised a brain biopsy technique through only one burr hole under real time monitoring, using a small foot-print transducer, 12 mm in diameter, and a special trocar with engraved scales on its surface.
(3) "The National Gallery of Australia currently has more than 50 engravings related to this painting, and there exist many more.
(4) Photograph: islandersa1 flickr They were also instructed to engrave their possessions with special metallic pens, to clutch their bags with both hands, to hide any property they might have in their cars, and not even to trust their valuables to hotel vaults.
(5) It has been a battle fought out in the past few days on the wall of the former US embassy, where the “Death to America” slogans that had been there since the 1979 Islamic revolution were painted over this week – only to be replaced by a plaque engraved with anti-American slogans put up by ultra-conservative students.
(6) And a cameraman has just spotted that the engraver is now engraving Arsenal's name into the trophy: equally premature?
(7) He and Mitchell agreed on a limited edition of wood engravings based on the play, printed on handmade papers.
(8) The stone slabs engraved in the 19th century with the name of Cromwell and his relatives are usually covered by a blue carpet bearing the RAF crest.
(9) Guidance of the neuritic processes can be observed with small grooves engraved on quartz and plastic substrates, and simple shapes with few processes and bifurcations on each neurite could be obtained using adhesive microstructures.
(10) This nitrous oxide effect was present at all dial settings studied except the lowest engraved (0.25) concentration.
(11) The virtues of graft were drummed in by his parents, Nettie, a bookkeeper and Martin, an engraver – so successfully that at 17 Woody was earning more than them both combined , rattling out gags for comedians and columnists.
(12) It was safer just to go on living together, though they did have engraved gold wedding bands, and Eva still wears hers today.
(13) If he dies there, what should be engraved on his tombstone?
(14) On the back of the seat was a plaque engraved with "Much-loved aunt".
(15) The first one is a case history, the second one is more general discussion with a fine engraving added.
(16) Systemic information, together with genetic information engraved on macromolecules and matter described by physics and chemistry, represents the existential basis of life.
(17) The new techniques of mechanical reproduction of photographs in printing slowly but surely replaced the lithos and wood engravings.
(18) If a bot manages to fool two or more of the judges, it will win its creator a gold medal engraved with Turing's image, and $100,000 (£64,000).
(19) And then I engraved this very delicate and traditional life drawing on to it, in words, and now that's become part of it.
(20) Someone, one day, may have to own up to making a considerable dent in the silverware itself, just beneath the engraving "Chelsea Football Club 2012", though this was not the time to be talking of depressions of any kind.