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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.

Synonyms
Examples for "eager"
Examples for "eager"
1
Democratic lawmakers were eager to attack health insurers during the overhaul debate.
Reuters
2
However, others hang about waiting in anticipation, eager to continue the night.
The Irish Times
3
To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite indifferent.
Leaves of Grass
4
Modernising armed forces eager to share burden of defending Europe's global interests.
The Irish Times
5
With international prices at record levels, local producers are eager to export.
Reuters
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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Yearning through the time
Yearning across language varieties
United Kingdom
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Ireland
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United States of America
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