Crave

1. v. i. To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite.
2. v. t. To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.
3. v. t. To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.