Craven

Adjective

 * 1) Unwilling to fight; lacking even the rudiments of courage; extremely cowardly.

Derived terms

 * cry craven

Noun

 * 1) A confessed coward.

Verb

 * 1) To make craven.
 * 2) * 1609: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Cymbeline, Act III, Scene IV
 * There is a prohibition so divine / That cravens my weak hand.

Adjectives
stricken; confessed; marked; cowering; fearful; cringing; crass.

Thesaurus
base, caitiff, chicken, coward, dastard, dastardly, dunghill, dunghilly, funk, funker, gutless, lily-livered, poltroon, poltroonish, pusillanimous, quitter, recreant, spunkless, unmanly

Etymology
From craven:

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: страхлив
 * Finnish: pelkurimainen
 * Portuguese: covarde


 * Serbian: Kukavica,plašljivac
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * Bulgarian: страхливец
 * Finnish:


 * Icelandic: heigull, raggeit, bleyða
 * Scottish Gaelic:

Anagrams

 * carven
 * cavern

Etymology 1
From cravanté:, past participle of cravanter:, from  crepo:

Adjective

 * 1) Defeated.

Etymology 2
crafian:, indicating (compare related  krefja: > Danish kræve:, Norwegian kreve:).

Verb

 * 1) desire; crave

Derived terms

 * icravet