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yearning [ˈjɜːnɪŋ] n
an intense or overpowering longing, desire, or need; craving yearningly adv ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
yearning Translations yearning [ˈjɜːrnɪŋ] n → désir m ardent to have a yearning for sth → avoir un désir ardent de qch to have a yearning to do sth → avoir un désir ardent de faire qch year-round [ˌjɪərˈraʊnd] adj year-round sunshine → du soleil toute l'année adv → toute l'année yearning n → Sehnsucht f, → Verlangen nt → (to do sth etw zu tun, for nach); a look full of yearning → ein sehnsuchtsvoller Blick; a yearning for the past → die Sehnsucht nach der Vergangenheit adj desire → sehnsüchtig; look also → sehnsuchtsvoll, verlangend yearning [ˈjɜːnɪŋ] 1. adj (desire) → intenso/a; (look, tone) → desideroso/a, bramoso/a 2. n yearning (for) → desiderio struggente (di) yearning [ˈjɜːnɪŋ] 1. adj (desire) → intenso/a; (look, tone) → desideroso/a, bramoso/a 2. n yearning (for) → desiderio struggente (di) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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So the pot was placed in safety, but it was not long before the cat had a great yearning for it, and said to the mouse: 'I want to tell you something, little mouse; my cousin has brought a little son into the world, and has asked me to be godmother; he is white with brown spots, and I am to hold him over the font at the christening. It is not I--'old' Trefethan--that talks; it is my youth, and it is my youth that says those were the most wonderful eyes I have ever seen--so very calm, so very restless; so very wise, so very curious; so very old, so very young; so satisfied and yet yearning so wistfully. Their ardor alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and the other condemned as a lapse. |
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