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The word yearn is a regular verb. The past tense is yearned.
To pine means yearn for something.
Desire is another word for yearn. Additional synonyms include covet, hanker, pine and crave.
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To yearn or to crave.
Many immigrants merely yearn to breathe free. The wool shopper said she should yearn for sturdier yarn.
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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.
The Igbo meaning for the word "Yearn" of the African origin is Juputa n'ebere; Cho.
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.)
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