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Meaning yearn meaning

What does yearn mean?
Definitions in simple English

yearn Verb

— If you yearn for something, you have a strong desire for it. All I yearn for is a simple life.

yearn

— verb (= hanker) desire strongly or persistently — verb have affection for; feel tenderness for — verb (= ache, pine) have a desire for something or someone who is not present She ached for a cigarette I am pining for my lover

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yearn English » English

long crave desire long for pine miss ache hanker aspire wish languish wish for lust hunger want starve itch yen yearn for thirst for thirst sigh hope for hope homesick expect envy covet be sad aim admire ache for thrill thirst after think of strive slobber slaver rush restless for regret pant need moon love lonesome lonely like lend off induce

Topics yearn topics

What do people use yearn to talk about?
Language and thought

Want
Language and thought Emotion Feel good

Like, love

Conjugation yearn conjugation

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yearn · verb

Examples yearn examples

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Simple sentences

I yearn for victory.
We yearn to go back to our native land.
For a pillow like this all men do yearn but that - quite frankly - is not my concern.
Better not to yearn for impossible dreams.

Movie subtitles

Sit and yearn?
No, for my manly heart doth yearn.
For Falstaff he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.
Not that I don't sometimes feel that you yearn for something better.
I yearn for you so badly I can't bear it anymore.
I yearn for that moment when the door will open. -.and all the faces will turn to him. - Who is he?
They yearn for the blood of those they loved most when they were alive.
And I yearn for Russia, home I want to get, For so long I haven't seen my mother.
In fact, I yearn to have one as a pet.
I give kindness, and I yearn for kindness.
I yearn to burn.
How I yearn for you!
I'm from Dublin, came to the wedding my sister, and yearn for a mission.
You know, gentlemen you yearn for victory, just as I do.
Or, the big yearn for a girl you can't have.
So you don't have to yearn for your mountains all the time, I will show you our mountains!
I yearn for that moment when the door will open.
Now, gentlemen, I take it we all yearn to serve on this new Atlantic liner?
But can I. can I be someone who women. yearn after and crave for and lust after?
Sooner or later, no matter how beautiful their minds are, you're going to yearn for someone who looks like yourself. Someone who isn't ugly.
You could make them yearn for you.
It is light blue and it wings are as translucent silk, but it always yearn for the ground which don't know, because if it touches the ground it will die.
I give Kindness and I yearn for Kindness.
I want to forget you. I must yearn for you, next time we meet.
I seek the unknown. The unknown mystery, the unknown peril. I yearn for the unknown.
They yearn but for the end of battle that all return to the haven of home.
No; for my manly heart doth yearn.
That's too bad. I yearn to have a child.
I yearn.
I yearn like a kite yearns for the rain.
And they'll yearn to be?
Sooner or later, no matter how beautiful their minds are, you're going to yearn for someone who looks like yourself.
Zarak, do you not yearn for shape and touch and feeling?
You shouldn't yearn so for something.
The more is revealed, the more you yearn for greater revelation.
And talk to her of hearts that yearn, intimating that there is one such on the premises.

News and current affairs

Those in Europe and around the world who yearn for a victory by John Kerry in the US presidential election ought to keep that bit of ancient Greek wisdom in mind.
The creation of such hope now depends exclusively on Israel, which must act immediately to boost the many Palestinians who yearn for peace, rather than insisting on a total disappearance of terrorism.
Bulgaria's nearest EU members, however, seem to yearn for the Iron Curtain.
As the state plunges into chronic weakness, a growing number of people yearn for it to be made stronger, even if our new liberties need to be sacrificed here and there.
The people of Palestine yearn for peace and relief from suffering.
Iranians yearn for reform, reflected in President Khatami's two landslide electoral victories.
Or yearn to toss all the bums out - a sentiment that now seems to be taking root in Brazil.
While some in the West may yearn for the return of the strong, unifying state, most of us recognize that it is not coming back.
They did not experience the dull but stable certainties of the Soviet party-state, and few yearn for its resurrection.

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