Definition of Yearn

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Definition of Yearn

Yearn

To pain; to grieve; to vex.

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

To curdle, as milk.

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.

Related Definitions:

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Yearn Quotations

I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.
Adlai E. Stevenson

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Mignon McLaughlin

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.
Stephen Jay Gould

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
Allan Bloom

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.
Ariel Sharon

I don't yearn to be a child again.
Loretta Young

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
Hugh Mackay

Yearn Translations

yearn in Afrikaans is verlang
yearn in Dutch is verlangen, hunkeren, reikhalzen
yearn in Finnish is kaivata
yearn in French is soupirer
yearn in German is sich sehnen
yearn in Latin is esurio
yearn in Norwegian is lengte

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