Crave
Crave verb - To have an earnest wish to own or enjoy.
Make
Make verb - To bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The love gets the person high, it elates them, being away from it will make them crave it, they will be addicted to it, they feel like they are floating, they have a loss of appetite and so on.
Source: Love Is A Drug - Sherrilyn Kenyon loves to make fans crave the next book to find out what happens.
Source: Cliffhanger / Literature -
Both crave control over the story, neither one realizing that they're both slaves to it.Narrator: I don't make the rules, I simply play to my intended purpose, the same as Stanley.
Source: Video Game / The Stanley Parable
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