how to pronounce crave

/kɹɛɪv/

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crave is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of crave in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… consumers these days crave high-quality …”

meaning of crave

To crave means to have a strong desire for something.

crave frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word crave occurs in english on average 7.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics crave can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that crave can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;