You should always crave for Chinese food.
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Crave
//kɹeɪv//
Synonyms for "crave" (98 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (29)
Related words (49)
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5 entriesSynonyms
7 entriesderived
7 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
79 translations across 33 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- اشتهى verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- اِشْتَهَى verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Bulgarian
2 entries- жадувам verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- копнея verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Burmese
1 entries- မက် verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Catalan
4 entries- anhelar verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- ansiar (valencià) verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- delejar verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- implorar verb (to ask earnestly)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏍᏉᏍᎦ verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 渴望 verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- 熱望 /热望 verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- tamşanmaq verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Czech
3 entries- dychtit verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- toužit po verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- žadonit verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Dutch
1 entries- verlangen verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Esperanto
1 entries- deziregi verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Finnish
2 entries- haluta kovasti verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- himoita verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
French
3 entries- désirer verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- implorer verb (to ask earnestly)
- souhaiter verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Galician
4 entries- arelar verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- croiñar verb (to ask earnestly)
- degorar verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- deprecar verb (to ask earnestly)
German
4 entries- begehren verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- erbitten verb (to ask earnestly)
- erflehen verb (to ask earnestly)
- sich sehnen verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Hebrew
1 entries- הִשְׁתּוֹקֵק verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Hungarian
3 entries- sóvárog verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- vágyik verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- vágyódik verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Italian
2 entries- bramare verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- desiderare verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Japanese
2 entries- 切望する verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- 懇願する verb (to ask earnestly)
Latin
2 entries- avēo verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- dēsīderō verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Latvian
2 entries- alkt verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- kārot verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Lithuanian
2 entries- geisti verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- trokšti verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Middle English
2 entries- craven verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- craven verb (to ask earnestly)
Māori
4 entries- kaimomotu verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- kohekohe verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- kumama verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- matainaina verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Old Norse
1 entries- krefja verb (to ask earnestly)
Persian
1 entries- هوس کردن verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Polish
3 entries- błagać verb (to ask earnestly)
- pożądać verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- pragnąć verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Portuguese
1 entries- ansiar verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Romanian
3 entries- dori verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- implora verb (to ask earnestly)
- jindui verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Russian
1 entries- жажда́ть verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- žudjeti verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Spanish
4 entries- acezar verb ((intransitive) to want strongly)
- alamparse verb ((intransitive) to want strongly)
- amalayar verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- anhelar verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Swedish
1 entries- sukta efter verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Turkish
2 entries- can atmak verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
- çok istemek verb ((transitive) to want strongly)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
As the Duke of Zhou said, "It is beneficial not to crave personal benefit."
Source: tatoeba (1351156)
As the trees crave tranquility in the ever-persistent wind, the child craves the care of its ever-absent parents.
Source: tatoeba (2301426)
The heat is making me crave for an ice cream.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.