英语词汇“yearn”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

yearn

释义

yearn¹ /yûrn/

intransitive verb

To express longing, eg by sound or appearance
To feel great desire
To feel compassion, tenderness or grief (also used impersonally, as ‘it yearns me’; also earn; obsolete, Spenser and Shakespeare)

transitive verb

noun

A yearning

ORIGIN: OE geornan (WSax giernan) to desire; related to georn desirous, eager; cf Ger gern willingly

yearnˈer noun

yearnˈing noun and adjective

yearnˈingly adverb

transitive verb

To earn

ORIGIN: earn¹

transitive verb and intransitive verb

(of milk) to curdle (also yearn)

ORIGIN: OE iernan = rinnan to run, and ærnan = rennan to cause to run; gerinnan, and causative gerennan to curdle

earnˈing noun

Rennet (also yearning)

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