yearn¹ /yûrn/

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

1. To desire strongly or feel longing for (also earn; obsolete)
2. To express a desire for or ask for (obsolete)
3. To cause to mourn (Shakespeare)

A yearning

yearnˈer noun

• gets
• get shot of
• get someone at it
• get someone's back up
• get someone's dander up
• get someone's goat
• get someone's measure
• get someone's number
• get something down to a fine art
• get something off one's chest
• get spliced
• get stuck in
• get stuck into
• get stuffed
• gettable
• getter
• gettered
• gettering
• getterings
• getters
• get the ball rolling
• get the best of it
• get the better of
• get the bird
• get the bit between one's teeth