yearn
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/icons/point.icon LONG, YEARN, HANKER, PINE, HUNGER, THIRST mean to have a strong desire for something.
LONG implies a wishing with one's whole heart and often a striving to attain.
e.g. longed for some rest
YEARN suggests an eager, restless, or painful longing.
e.g. yearned for a stage career
HANKER suggests the uneasy promptings of unsatisfied appetite or desire.
e.g. always hankering for money
PINE implies a languishing or a fruitless longing for what is impossible.
e.g. pined for a lost love
HUNGER and THIRST imply an insistent or impatient craving or a compelling need.
e.g. hungered for a business of his own
e.g. thirsted for power
/icons/point.icon YEARN, LONG, and PINE mean to desire something very much.
YEARN is used of a very eager desiring along with restless or painful feelings.
e.g. They're yearning for freedom.
LONG is used when someone truly wants something and often tries very hard to get it.
e.g. She longed to become a successful writer.
PINE is used when someone is growing weak while continuing to want something that is impossible to get.
e.g. She was pining away for her long lost friend.
verb no object
have an intense feeling of longing for something, typically something that one has lost or been separated from:
(切ない気持ちを抱いて) «…に» あこがれる, «…を» 慕う(long2); 切望する «for, after»
e.g. she yearned for a glimpse of him
〖～ to do〗 しきりに…したがる
e.g. with infinitive : they yearned to go home
e.g. some people yearn for a return to monarchy.
archaic be filled with compassion or warm feeling:
«…に» 同情する, «…を» かわいそうに思う «over, to, toward, for» .
e.g. no fellow spirit yearned toward her.
DERIVATIVES
yearner noun
ORIGIN
Old English giernan, from a Germanic base meaning ‘eager’.