crave

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
crave/kreɪv/

▶verb

• 1 feel a powerful desire for.

• 2 archaic ask for: I must crave your indulgence.

– derivatives
craver noun,
craving noun.

– origin OE crafian (in the sense ‘demand, claim as a right’), of Gmc origin.