yearn

yearn is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pain; to grieve; to vex. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To pain; to grieve; to vex.
2. intransitive verb. To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
3. transitive/intransitive verb. To curdle, as milk.
4. intransitive verb. To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.
5. verb. have affection for; feel tenderness for
6. verb. have a desire for something or someone who is not present

   "She ached for a cigarette"

   "I am pining for my lover"

   Synonyms: ache, languish, pine, yen

7. verb. desire strongly or persistently

   Synonyms: hanker, long

Synonyms

ache, languish, pine, yen, hanker, long

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in yearn:

enray, renay

Common word forms

yearns, yearned, yearner, yearnful, yearning

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for YEARN lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.