Definitions for yearn

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Spelling: [yurn]
IPA: /yɜrn/

Yearn is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in yearn (aenry).

Definitions for yearn

verb (used without object)

  1. to have an earnest or strong desire; long:
  2. to feel tenderness; be moved or attracted:

Origin of yearn

before 900; Middle English yernen, Old English giernan derivative of georn eager; akin to Old Norse girna to desire, Greek chaírein to rejoice, Sanskrit háryati (he) desires

Examples for yearn

If it should not lead to something further; but I do yearn to repay her.

Over 2,000 people graduate from university each year in Bhutan, and they yearn for professional work.

Others may yearn for the strenuous life, but not your humble servant.

And do we not yearn to do as they did: enable America to “find its ‘greatness’ again”?

She yearned as only a mother can yearn for the warm caresses of her children.

It's at a time like this that Germans yearn most for Paul the Octopus, the great mollusk soothsayer for Germany.

I yearn for an America where people in positions of leadership actually take actual responsibility for their actual failures.

He had yearned for it, as a child might yearn for a plaything.

I like to have a chance of refusing an invitation I yearn for, and then be forced to accept.

We may yearn for them but they are unreachable now, left in a past that seems almost to belong to a distant planet.

Word Value for yearn
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8

Words with friends

8

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