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All yearn synonyms

yearn
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verb yearn

  • desire — A desire is a strong wish to do or have something.
  • long — having considerable linear extent in space: a long distance; a long handle.
  • crave — If you crave something, you want to have it very much.
  • ache — If you ache or a part of your body aches, you feel a steady, fairly strong pain.
  • hanker — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
  • want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
  • covet — If you covet something, you strongly want to have it for yourself.
  • hunger — a compelling need or desire for food.
  • thirst — a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by need of liquid.
  • chafe — If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
  • itch — to have or feel a peculiar tingling or uneasy irritation of the skin that causes a desire to scratch the part affected: My nose itches.
  • pine — Archaic. painful longing.
  • dream — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
  • languish — to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
  • lust — intense sexual desire or appetite.
  • have a crush on — be attracted to: sb
  • set one's heart on — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
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