crave vs seek

crave

verb
  • To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim. 

  • To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for. 

noun
  • A formal application to a court to make a particular order. 

seek

verb
  • To ask for; to solicit; to beseech. 

  • To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at. 

  • To try to find; to look for; to search for. 

  • To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. 

  • To navigate through a stream. 

  • To attempt, endeavour, try 

noun
  • The operation of navigating through a stream. 

How often have the words crave and seek occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )