(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.
Wish
Definition:
(v. t.) To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.
(v. t.) To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.
(v. t.) To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate.
(v. t.) To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.
(n.) Desire; eager desire; longing.
(n.) Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation.
(n.) A thing desired; an object of desire.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wish to clarify that for the period 1998 to 2002 I was employed by Fifa to work on a wide range of matters relating to football,” Platini wrote.
(2) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
(3) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(4) Following the hypothesis that infertile patients may present emotional conflicts with regard to the wish of having a child, psychodynamic interviews were carried out with 116 infertile couples concomitantly with their first consultation at the Sterility Department.
(5) Last November he bluntly warned EU chiefs he could, if he wished, “flood Europe” with refugees.
(6) But I don't wish to be too hard on the judge for not taking that view.
(7) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
(8) This search represents movement beyond the significance of infantile wish-fulfillment aspects of religiosity toward the broader domain of ego functioning and quality of object relations.
(9) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(10) The content and dynamics of two 11-session psychotherapy groups led by physicians for 18 adult patients with insulin-dependent diabetes are described as a guide for others wishing to use this form of treatment.
(11) Management and treatment issues are surveyed, such as the necessity to recognize that in some adolescents violence erupts not from narcissitic rage but from strong wishes for affectionate contact.
(12) "Plymouth Argyle is a proper football club and I wish them well," said Hughton.
(13) Many cases before the commissioner remain unresolved, although those who wish to pursue matters to the tribunal as part of the transitional arrangements will not have to pay an additional fee to appeal to the tribunal.
(14) It is indispensable to establish a close cooperation between the public health authorities and the private physician, and we therefore wish to sincerely thank all colleagues and Public Health Officers for their collaboration.
(15) An accurate portrait of BLS and ACLS instructors is crucial for organizations such as the American Heart Association if they wish to attract and retain instructors.
(16) If you can't give them everything at once, you may be able to satisfy at least some of the items on their wish list.
(17) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
(18) We wish to thank once again all the Chinese people and people around the world who have supported Beijing 2022 in this extraordinary bid journey.” Earlier, the president Xi threw his weight behind China’s bid, promising the “strongest support” for the Beijing Games in a one-minute video address to the IOC delegates.
(19) Fitzgibbon notes that these documents had been tabled contrary to the wishes of the defence sub-commitee.
(20) Early work showed a relationship between these two molecules, which we wished to further document, in particular because of the growing realization of the functional importance of CD28 in some T cell activation pathways.