Look up: yearn

1. yearn
   [v] - have affection for
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2. Yearn
   Yearn (yẽrn) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Yearned ; present participle & verbal noun Yearning .] [ Also earn , ern ; probably a corruption of Middle E...
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3. Yearn
   Yearn intransitive verb To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn. [ Obsolete] 'Falstaff he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.' Shak.
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4. Yearn
   Yearn intransitive verb & t. [ See Yearnings .] To curdle, as milk. [ Scot.]
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5. Yearn
   Yearn intransitive verb [ Middle English yernen , ʒernen , ʒeornen , Anglo-Saxon geornian , gyrnan , from georn desirous, eager; akin to Old Saxon gern desirous, girnean , gern...
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6. yearn
   To pain; to grieve; to vex. 'She laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.' 'It yearns me not if men my garments wear.' (Shak) ... Origin: Also earn, ern; probably a corruption of OE. Ermen to grieve, AS. Ierman, yrman, or geierman, geyrman, fr. Earm wretched, poor; akin to D. ...
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7. yearn
   pine verb have a desire for something or someone who is not present; `She ached for a cigarette`; `I am pining for my lover`
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8. Yearn
   • (v. i. & t.) To curdle, as milk. • (v. t.) To pain; to grieve; to vex. • (v. i.) To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager. • (v. i.)...
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