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Crave

To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.

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Beg 76% connected

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Desire 76% connected

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Implore 76% connected

To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly b…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pray 76% connected

See Pry.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Want 76% connected

The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Craving 74% connected

of Crave

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Craving 74% connected

of Crave

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 4

Hunger 92% connected

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Lust 92% connected

Pleasure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Starve 92% connected

To die; to perish.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Thirst 92% connected

A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excite…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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