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• n  prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
• v  desire strongly or persistently
• v  have a desire for something or someone who is not present
• v  have affection for; feel tenderness for

• With all this stuff piling up and never quite getting put away, we're no longer huddled masses yearning to breathe free; we're huddled masses yearning to free up space on a .
• Lost and yearning to return home, they find themselves trapped in a secret valley full of dragons, talking animals and scary rat creatures.
• As many of us know from experience, grief over the death of a loved one tends to encompass several emotions often classified as disbelief, yearning, anger, depression and .

• longing
• hungriness
• hanker
• long
• yearn
• ache
• yen
• pine
• languish

News & Articles

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• Displaced Tenant
  Hello. I am new to this forum, and I look forward to reading a lot of your posts. As the title hints at, I consider myself a displaced tenant in this journey (born and raised in one country, living in another, and yearning for a smorgasboard of Caribbean countries).
  June 16, 2013 - Cruise Addicts
• Father Shares, and Looks Up to, Son’s Love of Hockey
  Never a natural at team sports, a middle-aged man, inspired by his son’s skill and fearlessness, has rediscovered a teenage yearning to play hockey, despite frequent tumbles.
  June 15, 2013 - New York Times
• Where to spread your picnic blanket
  Following are suggested sites to head for when you're yearning to enjoy an outdoor lunch or dinner. There are plenty more, in this and surrounding counties. Find state parks and forests sites on the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources website, dcnr.state.pa.us. Also, recrea...
  June 15, 2013 - Lancaster Online

Quotes

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• Lindsey Graham in Peninsula Daily
  The more you have to worry about being challenged by the base,he said, "the less likely you are to engage in solution politics that people are yearning for."
• Pope Benedict XVI in NEWS.com.au
  It is in fact based on Lebanese unanimity on the creation of this tribunal and the Lebanese who are yearning to protect Lebanon, bolster its democratic freedoms and national security and bring it out of the cycle of killings and... Fuad Saniora http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouad_Siniora&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHpNNbv3AaqlIwwZiKJGaAFXHMNug International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/25/africa/ME_GEN_Lebanon.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFfclHPI2CaSsbFro69gBaH0l4veQ Nov 24, 2006 111775 146534 yearning Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses and the pain of false promises," the Pope said. "Our hearts and minds are yearning for a vision of life where love endures,...