Synonyms of the word

crave

• v. (transitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
• v. (transitive) To ask for earnestly.

beg

• v. (intransitive) to request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
• v. (transitive) to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
• v. (transitive) to assume, in the phrase beg the question.
• v. (proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase beg the question.
• v. (law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
• n. a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey.
• abbr. (knitting) beginning.

desire

• v. To want; to wish for earnestly.
• v. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
• v. To want emotionally or sexually.
• v. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
• v. To require; to demand; to claim.
• v. To miss; to regret.
• n. (countable) Someone or something wished for.
• n. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
• n. (uncountable) Motivation.
• n. (uncountable) The feeling of desire.

hunger

• n. A need or compelling desire for food.
• n. (by extension) Any strong desire.
• v. To be in need of food.
• v. (figuratively, usually with 'for' or 'after') To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
• v. (archaic) To make hungry; to famish.

implore

• v. To beg urgently or earnestly.
• v. To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.

lust

• n. A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.
• n. (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
• n. (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
• n. (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power.
• v. (intransitive, usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially…

pray

• v. To petition or solicit help from a supernatural or higher being.
• v. To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.
• v. (religion) To communicate with God for any reason.
• v. (obsolete) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
• adv. Please; used to make a polite request.

starve

• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
• v. (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
• v. (intransitive) To be very hungry.
• v. (transitive) To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
• v. (transitive) To deprive of nourishment.
• v. (transitive, Britain, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.

thirst

• n. A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of…
• n. The condition producing the sensation of thirst.
• n. (figuratively) A want and eager desire (for something); a craving or longing.
• v. (intransitive) To be thirsty.
• v. (intransitive, usually followed by "for") To desire.

want

• v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
• v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
• v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
• v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
• n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
• n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
• n. (uncountable) Poverty.
• n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
• n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.