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Wester vs Yearns - What's the difference?

wester | yearns |

As verbs the difference between wester and yearns

is that wester is to move towards the west while yearns is (yearn).

As a noun wester

is a strong westerly wind.

wester

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strong westerly wind.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move towards the west
  • *
  • * 1936 , , More Poems , XI, line 1-2
    • The rainy Pleiads wester ,
    Orion plunges prone,

    Derived terms

    * westering

    Usage notes

    *Used especially of heavenly bodies

    yearns

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (yearn)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    yearn

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) giernan, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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
    • Falstaff he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.
  • To pain; to grieve; to vex.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It would yearn your heart to see it.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
    Derived terms
    () * yearner * yearnful * yearnly * yearning * yearnsome * yearny

    Etymology 2

    See .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) To curdle, as milk.

    • Anagrams

    *

    See also

    crave English control verbs English intransitive verbs