Definitions for Craven

Craven cra·ven

Spelling: [krey-vuh n]
IPA: /ˈkreɪ vən/

Craven is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in Craven (acenrv).

Definitions for Craven

noun

  1. a coward.

Idioms

  1. cry craven, to yield; capitulate; give up.

adjective

  1. cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous.

verb (used with object)

  1. to make cowardly.

Origin of Craven

1175-1225; Middle English cravant, cravaunde defeated Old French craventé, past participle of cravanter to crush, overwhelm (Vulgar Latin *crepantāre), influenced by Middle English creaunt de

Examples for Craven

And with the detective went a man whose gait was slinking, craven.

"craven Street, please," said the girl, and added a house number.

Maybe he could no longer bear the craven truth about himself.

Swounds, but an empty stomach is a craven comrade in a desperate enterprise.

Hobbs had seemed more of the craven type which Stryker graced so conspicuously.

It might be helpful, now, if a few of these craven Republicans had the stones to say it.

Film stars and politicians are still bussed in to sell their products, in the most craven way possible.

Six miles from craven Cottage, where Fulham play their home games, is the stadium where this soccer revolution began 10 years ago.

In his heart he was ashamed of his fears; in his heart he knew himself for a craven.

And the President took Pelosi's way, not the highway of craven calculation.

Word Value for Craven
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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