All yearn synonyms
yearn
Y y 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.