Yerns vs Yearns - What's the difference?
yerns | yearns |
(yearn)
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
As verbs the difference between yerns and yearns
is that yerns is third-person singular of yern while yearns is third-person singular of yearn.yearns
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *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.