yearn
Енглески
уредиyearn
Pronunciation
уреди- (Received Pronunciation) МФА(кључ): /jɜːn/
- (General American) МФА(кључ): /jɝn/
- enPR: yûrn
Audio (US): (file) - Риме: -ɜː(r)n
Etymology 1
уредиFrom
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Стари Енглески
giernan, from
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Пра-Германски
Verb
уредиyearn (third-person singular simple present yearns, present participle yearning, simple past and past participle yearned)
- (intransitive) To long, have a strong desire (for something).
- All I yearn for is a simple life.
- 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous, Chapter 10,[1]
- What his soul yearned after was control of his father’s newly purchased sailing-ships.
- 1911, Jack London, “Just Meat” in When God Laughs, and Other Stories, New York: Macmillan, p. 125,[2]
- And Jim supported his twitching body by holding on to the sink, the while he yearned toward the yellowish concoction that stood for life.
- 1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island, Chapter 5,[3]
- “ […] Anne, please tell me over again that you like me a little bit. I yearn to hear it.”
- 1971, E. M. Forster, Maurice, Chapter 40,[4]
- […] all that night his body yearned for Alec’s, despite him.
- (intransitive) To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.
- 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, 1972, p. 420,[5]
- If I don’t go now, thought Charlotte, I shall have lost a chance which I shall eternally regret and yearn after.
- 2002, J. M. Coetzee, Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II, London: Vintage, Chapter 17, p. 137,[6]
- Having shaken the dust of the ugly new South Africa from his feet, is he yearning for the South Africa of the old days, when Eden was still possible?
- 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, 1972, p. 420,[5]
- (intransitive, dated) To have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone).
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 43.30,[7]
- And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
- 1873, Charles Reade, A Simpleton, Chapter 12,[8]
- Oh, it was a pretty sight to see this modest young creature, little more than a child herself, anticipating maternity, but blushing every now and then, and looking askant at her lord and master. How his very bowels yearned over her!
- 1880, Henry Adams, Democracy: An American Novel, New York: Henry Holt, Chapter 3, p. 52,[9]
- […] Mr. Ratcliffe’s heart yearned toward the charming girl quite with the sensations of a father, or even of an elder brother.
- 1883, Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm, Chapter 2.V,[10]
- But supper had cheered Tant Sannie, who found it impossible longer to maintain that decorous silence, and whose heart yearned over the youth.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 43.30,[7]
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act II, Scene 3,[11]
- […] Falstaff he is dead,
- And we must yearn therefore.
- 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Volume 2, Chapter 17, p. 144,[12]
- My father’s and my uncle Toby’s hearts yearn’d with sympathy for the poor fellow’s distress […]
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act II, Scene 3,[11]
- (транзитивно, obsolete) To pain; to grieve; to vex.
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3,[13]
- It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III, Scene 5,[14]
- Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.
- 1833, William Hamilton Maxwell, The Field Book: Or, Sports and Pastimes of the United Kingdom, London: Effingham Wilson, “Badger-Hunting,” p. 31,[15]
- When the badger finds that the terriers yearn him in his burrow, he will stop the hole between him and the terriers […]
- 1835, Leigh Hunt, “A Pinch of Snuff,” Leigh Hunt’s London Journal, Volume I, No. 13, p. 98, 25 June, 1834,[16]
- Wants to sneeze and cannot do it!
- Now it yearns me, thrills me, stings me,
- Now with rapturous torment wrings me,
- Now says “Sneeze, you fool; get through it.”
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3,[13]
Derived terms
уредиTranslations
уредиto have a strong desire; to long
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to long for something in the past with melancholy
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Etymology 2
уредиSee yearning (“rennet”).
Verb
уредиyearn (third-person singular simple present yearns, present participle yearning, simple past and past participle yearned)
- (Scotland) To curdle, as milk.
Etymology 3
уредиConflation of yearn and yen (“desire, craving”).
Noun
уредиyearn (plural yearns)
- (nonstandard) yen; yearning
- 1917 August 12, "A YEARN FOR PEACE; Pan-Germanism Denounced" Sunday Times (Perth, WA) p.1
- 1979 Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
- Gibbs now said he wasn't going to pull any punches with Gary when he knew how jealous a man could get, so he also wanted to tell him that Phil Hansen was reputed to have a yearn for attractive ladies.
- 2010 Frank Buchmann-Moller Someone to Watch Over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster (University of Michigan Press) →ISBN 0472025988 p.57
- "After he had made a record date with us in 1935, I always had a yearn for Ben," he said years later.
- 2014 February 13, AFP, "Why internet adultery numbers are soaring" New Zealand Herald
- "My guess, however, is that it has because there are many people who have a yearn for sex outside their relationship but wouldn't have the slightest idea about how to do it or do it safely," Prof Schwartz added.
Anagrams
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Српски
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