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Yearn vs Blazing - What's the difference?

yearn | blazing |

As verbs the difference between yearn and blazing

is that yearn is to long, have a strong desire (for something) or yearn can be (scotland) to curdle, as milk while blazing is .

As an adjective blazing is

very fast.

As a noun blazing is

the act of something that blazes or burns.

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

    blazing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Very fast.
  • (sarcastically) Very slow.
    • Garden snails move at a blazing speed of about .03 miles per hour.
  • (slang, of a person) Sexually attractive.
    • The actress, with her perfectly-curved body, was simply blazing in her new movie!
  • Of tremendous intensity or fervor; white-hot.
    • It was a performance of blazing ferocity.
  • (colloquial) Exceedingly angry.
    • I've became so blazing that I can't control myself properly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that blazes or burns.
    • the blazings of many fires