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To long, have a strong desire (for something).

Example: All I yearn for is a simple life.

To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.

To have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone).

To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.

To curdle, as milk.

Yearning; yen.

Example: 1917 August 12, "A YEARN FOR PEACE; Pan-Germanism Denounced" Sunday Times (Perth, WA) p.1