~ (for sth/sb) (literary) to want sth very much, especially when it is very difficult to get:
[V] The people yearned for peace. * There was a yearning look in his eyes. * [Vtoinf] She yearned to escape from her office job.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for yearn is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is yearn a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, yearn is tagged as verb.
Does yearn appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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