Definitions
1.verbTo long, have a strong desire (for something)."All I yearn for is a simple life."
2.verbTo long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.
3.verbTo have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone).
4.verbTo be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
5.verbTo pain; to grieve; to vex.
6.verbTo curdle, as milk.
7.nounA wistful or melancholy longing."She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again."