Word.ws English Dictionary

cravening

cravening is the present participle and gerund of craven.

Meaning of craven

Verb

craven (third-person singular simple present cravens, present participle cravening, simple past and past participle cravened)

  1. (archaic) To make craven.
    • There is a prohibition so divine / That cravens my weak hand.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

See all 7 meanings of craven

Questions about cravening

What is cravening the present participle and gerund of?
Cravening is the present participle and gerund of craven.

Words near cravening in the dictionary

  1. cravenette
  2. cravenetted
  3. cravenettes
  4. cravenetting
  5. cravenhearted
  6. cravening
  7. cravenly
  8. cravenness
  9. cravennesses
  10. cravenoceratid
  11. cravenoceratids

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cravening (page history and authors); craven (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cravening.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cravening. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.