Yearn vs Craved - What's the difference?
yearn | craved |
To long, have a strong desire (for something).
* All I yearn for is a simple life.
To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically
To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
* Shakespeare
To pain; to grieve; to vex.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
(crave)
To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
* Edmund Gurney
To ask for earnestly.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Mark xv. 43
As verbs the difference between yearn and craved
is that yearn is to long, have a strong desire (for something) or yearn can be (scotland) to curdle, as milk while craved is (crave).yearn
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) giernan, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Falstaff he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.
- It would yearn your heart to see it.
- It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
Derived terms
() * yearner * yearnful * yearnly * yearning * yearnsome * yearnyEtymology 2
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*craved
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*crave
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(crav)- I know I should diet more, but every afternoon I crave a soda so I have one.
- His path is one that eminently craves weary walking.
- I humbly crave your indulgence to read this letter until the end.
- I crave your honour's pardon.
- Joseph went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.