To pine means yearn for something.
Yearn is a word that expresses emotion. It means to long for something. Here is an example sentence, I yearn for the day that my dog has puppies.
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I yearn to see my childhood home; I have not been back there in many years and I miss it. (To yearn is to have a deep longing, to really miss something or someone.)
A synonym is a word that means the same as another word. So you have to have TWO words to compare. Yearn cannot be a synonym all by itself. It has to be a synonym of another word.
Crave? -------------------- Greed? ~typogal~ ------------------- Yearn yearn also means to be filled with longing
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In Igbo, the word "yearn" can be translated as "anα» n'α»₯zα»." It conveys the sense of longing or desiring something strongly, usually with an emotional or deep-felt longing.
It means to wish for something, to want something very badly. It has always meant that.
Another word that means missing someone is pining. The word pining means to deeply yearn for or to suffer with longing for someone.
yearn = hitga'age'a (התגעגע)
How I yearn to find an answer to this question (search google for "How I yearn")