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What does yearned mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of yearn
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My stomach muscles yearned for food, scolding me with sharp pangs that jolted my brain.
Having loved and lost, he yearned for the sort of redamancy only the classical love of years gone past may have once known.
He has long yearned the quiet life of a country squire in a little Cornish style farm in Sussex where he could raise bees.
With the coming of the spring-time I yearned only to sit under my favorite chestnut tree for a spell.
Although this was a horrid sight and sound the constant attention the kids yearned for made me pay no heed to them.
Residents were rehoused further downstream on the other side of the dam, but many yearned for the lost streets and houses.

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