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Crave vs Crake - What's the difference?

crave | crake |

As verbs the difference between crave and crake

is that crave is to desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for while crake is to cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.

As a noun crake is

any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.

crave

English

Verb

(crav)
  • To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
    • I know I should diet more, but every afternoon I crave a soda so I have one.
  • * Edmund Gurney
    • His path is one that eminently craves weary walking.
  • To ask for earnestly.
    • I humbly crave your indulgence to read this letter until the end.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I crave your honour's pardon.
  • * Bible, Mark xv. 43
    • Joseph went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

    Derived terms

    * craving

    Anagrams

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    crake

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Crake

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , itself onomatopoeic. (Rallidae)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
    • Derived terms
    * Baillon's crake * brown crake * Colombian crake * corncrake * cracker * water crake

    Verb

    (crak)
  • To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.

    • Etymology 2

    See crack

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A crack; a boast.

    • Verb

    (crak)
  • (obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
  • * The Mirror for Magistrates
    • Each man may crake of that which was his own.

    Anagrams

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