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CRAVING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An intense desire for some particular thing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("craving" is a kind of...):
desire (the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "craving"):
appetence; appetency; appetite (a feeling of craving something)
addiction (an abnormally strong craving)
Derivation:
crave (have a craving, appetite, or great desire for)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb crave
Context examples:
They include strong cravings, sweating, nausea, vomiting, irritation, anxiety, muscle pain, dilated pupils and insomnia.
(Opiate Withdrawal Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
The craving was all the stronger because I durst not speak openly about it, for the least hint of it brought the tears into my mother’s eyes.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These antibodies may help keep nicotine from reaching the brain, which can help reduce a person’s craving for nicotine.
(Nicotine vaccine, NCI Dictionary)
Often had Alleyne curled his lip at the beggarly craving for land or for gold which blinded man to the higher and more lasting issues of life.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Clinical features may include nicotine craving, irritability, anxiety, depression and increased appetite.
(Nicotine Withdrawal, NCI Thesaurus)
Administration of nicotine may prevent nicotine craving and may help with the withdrawal symptoms associated with smoking cessation.
(Nicotine lozenge, NCI Thesaurus)
It has to be noted that not all drug craving is based on withdrawal, since craving can often occur in the absence of withdrawal.
(Craving, NCI Thesaurus)
An uncontrollable craving, seeking, and use of a substance, such as a drug or alcohol.
(Addiction, NCI Dictionary)
The researchers also found that increasing blood aldosterone concentrations correlated with increasing levels of both alcohol craving and anxiety.
(NIH findings link aldosterone with alcohol use disorder, National Institutes of Health)
