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yearn
verb
noun
To long, have a strong desire (for something).
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/jɜːn/ /jɝn/
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verb
To long, have a strong desire (for something).
“All I yearn for is a simple life.”
To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.
To have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone).
To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
To pain; to grieve; to vex.
verb
To curdle, as milk.
noun
Yearning; yen.
“1917 August 12, "A YEARN FOR PEACE; Pan-Germanism Denounced" Sunday Times (Perth, WA) p.1”
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All I yearn for is a simple life.
1917 August 12, "A YEARN FOR PEACE; Pan-Germanism Denounced" Sunday Times (Perth, WA) p.1