Crossword-Solution: YEARNING 8 letters, 46 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Yearning p. pr. & vb. n. of Yearn

We have 46 clues for the answer “YEARNING”

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Heartfelt wish 1 answer
"... _____ to breathe free" (Statue of Liberty inscription) 1 answer
unsharing 4 answers
Wistful 9 answers
CALVARY INSCRIPTION 10 answers
wishful 11 answers
Strong desire. 13 answers
Hanker-ing 18 answers
Using 18 answers
envying 20 answers
Yen 20 answers
LONGING for 24 answers
APPETENCE 30 answers
insatiable 36 answers
Aspiration 38 answers
dolour 39 answers
disconsolation 39 answers
Bereavement 41 answers
teardrops 41 answers
Ungenerous 41 answers
Appetite 42 answers
pining 42 answers
wailing 42 answers
Wretchedness 42 answers
Eros 44 answers
Ache 45 answers
deploring 50 answers
despondency 50 answers
Sobbing 50 answers
Weeping 52 answers
torture 53 answers
Lamenting 55 answers
Ambitious. 55 answers
Dejection 58 answers
AGONY ___ 59 answers
Grief 61 answers
Sorrow 62 answers
Lamenta-tion 63 answers
Anguish 63 answers
Itch 64 answers
Hunger 66 answers
Longing 67 answers
Pain 67 answers
Blues 68 answers
Desire 70 answers
"Want ___?" 79 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with YEARNING (5)

For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Bathsheba’s return from a two months’ visit to her old aunt at Norcombe afforded the impassioned and yearning farmer a pretext for inquiring directly after her—now presumably in the ninth month of her widowhood—and endeavouring to get a notion of her state of mind regarding him.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Thou didst kindle the strife, this feud of kinsman with kin, By the eyes of a winsome wife, and the yearning her heart to win.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Here were the sand hills, the grasshoppers and locusts, all the things that wakened and chirped in the early morning; the reaching and reaching of high plains, the immeasurable yearning of all flat lands.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Perhaps again, he required nothing less than the great final remedy—death! A similar yearning to renew the broken links of brotherhood with his kind sometimes showed itself in a milder form; and once it was made beautiful by the religion that lay even deeper than itself.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with YEARNING (3)

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their…
Louise Erdrich The Painted Drum
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.
Louise Erdrich The Painted Drum
It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refus…
Christopher Hitchens Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, Universal.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1972–2014).