All yen synonyms
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Y y noun yen
- urge — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
- desire — A desire is a strong wish to do or have something.
- wish — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- longing — strong, persistent desire or craving, especially for something unattainable or distant: filled with longing for home.
- yearning — deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness: a widower's yearning for his wife.
- craving — an intense desire or longing
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- hunger — a compelling need or desire for food.
- 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.
- lust — intense sexual desire or appetite.
- passion — any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
- thirst — a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by need of liquid.
verb yen
- 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.
- look forward to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- spoil for — If you are spoiling for a fight, you are very eager for it to happen.
- hungering — Present participle of hunger.
- hanker — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
- desiderate — to feel the lack of or need for; long for; miss
- hungered — Simple past tense and past participle of hunger.
- pray — to offer devout petition, praise, thanks, etc., to (God or an object of worship).