Antonyms for yearn
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1. yearn

   Antonyms:
   loathe, revolt, recoil, shudder

   Synonyms:
   long, hanker, crave, covet, desire

2. yearn

   Synonyms:
   long for, be eager for

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1. • Care For
   • Desire

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1. hanker, long, yearnverb

   desire strongly or persistently

   Synonyms:
   yen, pine, ache, hanker, languish, long

2. ache, yearn, yen, pine, languishverb

   have a desire for something or someone who is not present

   "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"

   Synonyms:
   smart, languish, hurt, fade, pine away, long, ache, suffer, pine, hanker, waste, yen

3. yearnverb

   have affection for; feel tenderness for

   Synonyms:
   yen, pine, ache, hanker, languish, long

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1. yearnverb

   Synonyms:
   long, desire, hanker after, pine

How to use yearn in a sentence?

1. Ivan Duque:

   Peace is something all Colombians yearn for and peace means that we turn the page on the fissures that have divided us.

2. unknown:

   The chaos that scared the others away is what makes me yearn to stay.

3. Ivan Duque:

   Peace is something all Colombians yearn for, and peace means that we turn the page on the fractures that have divided us into friends and enemies of peace, today, we're all friends to build that peace and it must be a peace that above all allows the guerrilla base its demobilization, its disarmament and its effective reinsertion.

4. Czon:

   I'm always looking for my place in life and always yearn away to somewhere else, some other time.

5. Nancy Pelosi:

   If Hillary had won, I was ready to go home, it was really shocking that someone like Donald Trump would be President of the United States. We yearn for the day of a Mitt Romney or a George Bush or someone. But anyway, that motivated me to stay now.

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