English-Dutch translations for yearn

• smachten
• terugverlangen (naar
• verlangen
  Mijnheer de Voorzitter, het verlangen naar democratie heeft de Berlijnse muur neergehaald. Mr President, it was yearning for democracy that brought down the Berlin Wall.
  We moeten de mensen daar helpen, ze te eten geven, voor medische hulp zorgen en hen ondersteunen in hun sterke verlangen naar vrijheid. We must be there for the people, feed them, bring them medical relief, and support their yearning desire for freedom.
  Het verlangen naar vrede en de bezorgdheid over het nucleaire programma van Iran zijn in het Midden-Oosten haast tastbaar aanwezig. One can, in the Middle East, almost physically feel the yearning for peace and the concern about Iran's nuclear programme.
• zuchten

Definition of yearn

• To long, have a strong desire (for something
• 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 pain; to grieve; to vex
• To curdle, as milk
• Yearning;

Examples

• All I yearn for is a simple life.

Related words

• yearning
• yearningly
• yearn for
• yearning for
• yearning for death