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Meanings of intense wish in English

Spanish
anhelo
Catalan
anhel

Deep and aching desire for someone or something.

anhelo
Synonyms
Examples for "yearning"
Examples for "yearning"
1
Life only in yearning; Death to crown realization; peace only in oblivion.
Nelka / Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biograph...
2
Headline of the year: is your dishwasher really yearning for the internet?
The Irish Times
3
Jamaicans are maturing politically with a yearning for progress, change, and hope.
Jamaica Observer
4
South Africans are yearning for a chance to start a new page.
The South African
5
Sensibility, as far as concerned the yearning for food, had been exhausted.
The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
Usage of intense wish in English
1
An intense wish to swim again in the cool waters seized him.
The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve
2
Thirst for revenge joined the intense wish to become a warrior.
The Delight Makers
3
The same thought was in the mind of each, the same question, the same intense wish.
The Hollow of Her Hand
4
He looked at it as if he half thought it would be transformed under the power of his intense wish.
Philosopher Jack
5
A longer pause this time, following which the officer experienced a sudden intense wish to be anywhere other than where he currently happened to be.
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
6
His intense wish to "do the right thing," and avoid giving offence was the most ingenuous and touching feature of his broad cosmopolitan good nature.
The Shuttle
7
How well I can now comprehend the intense wishes of my early years!
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
8
Gunesh was produced by the intense wishes of Dewee, and is now appealed to at the commencement of almost every act in Hindoo life.
Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet
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Translations for intense wish
Spanish
anhelo
Catalan
anhel