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Meanings of yearning in English

Portuguese
desejo
Catalan
desig
Spanish
hambre

Prolonged unfulfilled desire or need.

        desejo
        Spanish
        anhelo
        Catalan
        anhel

        Deep and aching desire for someone or something.

              anhelo

              Ardent desire or craving.

                    Full of yearning.

                          Usage of yearning in English
                          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
                          6
                          Whimsical wish fulfilment of those yearning for some sort of past greatness?'
                          Orb Sceptre Throne
                          7
                          It wasn't anything quite so simple as a yearning of the body.
                          Flesh and blood
                          8
                          The yearning spoke itself in words which had been familiar since childhood:
                          Despair's Last Journey
                          9
                          A physical yearning was also satisfied with the efforts of Sean O'Brien.
                          The Guardian
                          10
                          The very sight of it awakened in his breast a strange yearning.
                          Jungle Tales of Tarzan
                          11
                          There was such yearning in her voice that Draken wanted to agree.
                          Chaosbound
                          12
                          The same yearning, the same piteous agitation was in her attitude now.
                          Lady Rose's Daughter
                          13
                          Under that tranquillity Felix caught the pain and yearning in her voice.
                          The Freelands
                          14
                          These savage birds appealed to all the poetry and yearning in Helena.
                          The Trespasser
                          15
                          I find myself yearning for past times when car drivers wore gloves.
                          The Irish Times
                          16
                          The nerves of his whole yearning soul seemed centered in his fingers.
                          The Desired Woman
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