Word Finder - yearned

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To long, have a strong desire (for something).

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All I yearn for is a simple life.

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To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.

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To have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone).

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To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.

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To pain; to grieve; to vex.

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To curdle, as milk.

He.d miss the smell and sight of his homeland and yearned already to stay here rather than return to his dark corner of the Immortal underworld!

Some small part of her yearned to feel that sense of unconditional safety and affection.

She yearned for this man's touch, though she barely knew it!

The public yearned to know what the soldiers and sailors were doing, and the information was withheld from them.

He yearned to see her face, but when he approached to make her turn, she disappeared, the moment they touched.

How long have you lied to me? she yearned to ask.

The scientist in Quinn yearned for answers and it was killing him that Howie was obdurate about limiting his gift.

But she missed the sound of his voice, and her body yearned for his touch again.

We humans long have yearned to see our surroundings from the heavens.

She almost felt weak from the ache at her core that yearned for him to be inside her.

He knew she was crying, and every fiber of his being yearned to open the door and go to her.

Jackson shook violently, desperate to summon self-control, while every part of him yearned to cry out with the utter horror coursing through his mind.

He didn't know if she still yearned for her husband during a time when marriages among servants were arranged, but there was nothing that could soothe the ache a mother felt at losing her child.

While he yearned to return to New Hampshire I sensed he possessed a strong guilt, locking him to his mother's bedside.

The thought distracted her, and she both yearned to be with him and hated herself for not being able to shake the thought of him.

He was so close … and couldn't touch her the way he yearned to.

He yearned for more frequent opportunities of preaching to his fellow-countrymen, and an invitation to Rotterdam gave him such opportunity.

The simplicity of his life and his adherence to Stoic principles were looked upon as a reproach to the frivolity and debaucheries of Nero, who "at last yearned to put Virtue itself to death in the persons of Thrasea and Soranus" (Tacitus).

Question From Henrys own mind it was never long absent; he of the yearned for a male heir, and he was growing tired of kings his wife Catherine, who was some years older than divorce, himself, had few personal attractions, and was growing somewhat of an invalid.

He was so close … and couldn't touch her the way he yearned to.

But she yearned for a wider field; by January 1854 she was referring to the institution as " this little molehill.

Beneath the designer gear my heart yearned for vast horizons, endless gallops, wildness and wilderness.

Despite a successful career in private business, Paul Allen always yearned for a return to his public sector roots.

I yearned for something to give, either to loose my gayness or to find a way of living without God.

Canadians have long since yearned for better competition in the wireless industry and this may have arrived with the new Wind Mobile rates and plans.

If you've always yearned to be the next Spielberg, you'll undoubtedly need some helpful tips on movie editing (among other things) to set you on the path to fame and fortune.

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Ray J claims he was tired of hook-ups and rocky relationships and yearned to break away from the "gold-diggers" and "groupies."

Protestantism; on the contrary, he yearned to beat these by their own weapons, chiefly by showing them that Catholics could interpret the Bible in a manner quite as mystical and pietistic as theirs.

But he did not remain long in Paris, for, being a nervous and excitable boy, his health broke down, and he yearned for his home in Franche-Comte.