to yearn
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4.9
- verb
- /jɪrn/
:
anhelar
- After being alone for so long, she began to yearn for companionship and meaningful relationships.
- yearn for more
- yearn for simpler times
- yearn to return
Your character wants to be in love, they yearn to be in love, but they're alone.
- Your character wants to be in love, they yearn to be in love, but they're alone.
- He was never yearning to be loved.
- And again, the reality of white behavior today is whites yearn to be post racial.
- And so that's another existential point, which is that we yearn for freedom.
- And so to the, to the contrary, we yearn for it.
- And we see him in this environment and we see him yearning to be part of this glitter rich crowd.
- There are some things you miss, and those addictive cycles can actually play on your brain in that way that you yearn for them, you long for them, and you crave them.
- These profits often foretell, and many seem to yearn for a world like one big glass roofed railway station.
- That's so powerful because I think most of us, what we're yearning for is to live in a less deactivated state.
- We live in a world where people yearn for affirmation or compliments, which makes them wildly vulnerable to booing.
Examples
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And so that's another existential point, which is that we yearn for freedom.
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My friend, I yearn for freedom as much as anyone but I run from no man.
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And I do because I yearn for that love they have like I yearn for that.
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Oh my God, you just made me like yearn for it.
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But you are so beautiful, my wife, and I yearn to show you my love in every way.
Fiction book (1992) -
Which are the roles that you yearn to play?
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We hit this milestone because people yearn for connection.
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As long as you lack something, you yearn for it without cease.
Fiction book (1994) -
People crave it, they yearn for it, they want it.
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The human person transcends material needs and yearns for truth, love, friendship, and justice.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
598
7.9
To want something very much
446
1.6
To want something very much
114
4.5
To want something very much and keep wanting it
103
3.8
To want something very much
37
8.2
To miss someone or something very much because they are not with you
18
4.2
To feel a strong longing for someone or something far away
17
6.7
To feel very sad and want someone or something a lot
8
5.2
To have a strong wish for something
5
7.4
To want something very much for a long time
1
7.7
To miss someone or something a lot when they are far away
To want someone or something very much
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yearn comes from the old English verb giernan and the old Norse verb girna, both meaning 'to desire' or 'want strongly'. So to yearn is like having a deep, aching wish for something you do not have.