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Yearn vs. Pine — What's the Difference?

Yearn vs. Pine — What's the Difference?

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Yearn

To have a strong, often sad longing
Yearn for a better life.
Yearn to see an old friend.

Pine

A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus () of the family Pinaceae. Pinus is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae.

Yearn

To feel deep pity, sympathy, or tenderness
Yearned over the child's fate.

Pine

An evergreen coniferous tree which has clusters of long needle-shaped leaves. Many kinds are grown for the soft timber, which is widely used for furniture and pulp, or for tar and turpentine.

Yearn

To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.
All I yearn for is a simple life.
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Pine

A pineapple.

Yearn

(specifically) To long for something in the past with melancholy or nostalgia.

Pine

Suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of a broken heart
She thinks I am pining away from love

Yearn

(intransitive) Of music, words, etc.: to express strong desire or longing.

Pine

Any of various evergreen trees of the genus Pinus, having fascicles of needle-shaped leaves and producing woody seed-bearing cones. These trees are widely cultivated for ornament and shade and for their timber and resinous sap, which yields turpentine and pine tar.

Yearn

To have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc., toward someone.

Pine

Any of various other coniferous trees, such as the Norfolk Island pine.

Yearn

To be distressed or pained; to grieve; to mourn.

Pine

The wood of any of these trees.

Yearn

(transitive) Often followed by out: to perform (music) which conveys or say (words) which express strong desire or longing.

Pine

Intense longing or grief.

Yearn

To have a strong desire or longing (for something or to do something).

Pine

To feel a lingering, often nostalgic desire.

Yearn

To cause (someone) to have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc.; also, to grieve or pain (someone).

Pine

To wither or waste away from longing or grief
Pined away and died.

Yearn

Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.

Pine

To grieve or mourn for.

Yearn

Of cheese: to be made from curdled milk.

Pine

Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
The northern slopes were covered mainly in pine.

Yearn

To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.

Pine

(countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.

Yearn

To make (cheese) from curdled milk.

Pine

(uncountable) The wood of this tree.

Yearn

A strong desire or longing; a yearning, a yen.

Pine

A pineapple.

Yearn

To pain; to grieve; to vex.
It yearns me not if men my garments wear.

Pine

(archaic) A painful longing.

Yearn

To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.

Pine

(intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.

Yearn

To curdle, as milk.

Pine

(intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.

Yearn

To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.
Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother; and he sought where to weep.
Your mother's heart yearns towards you.

Pine

(transitive) To grieve or mourn for.

Yearn

Desire strongly or persistently

Pine

(transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment.

Yearn

Have a desire for something or someone who is not present;
She ached for a cigarette
I am pining for my lover

Pine

Woe; torment; pain.

Yearn

Have affection for; feel tenderness for

Pine

Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.

Pine

The wood of the pine tree.

Pine

A pineapple.

Pine

To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
That people that pyned him to death.
One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.

Pine

To grieve or mourn for.

Pine

To suffer; to be afflicted.

Pine

To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; - often used with away.

Pine

To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; - usually followed by for.
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.

Pine

A coniferous tree

Pine

Straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus

Pine

Have a desire for something or someone who is not present;
She ached for a cigarette
I am pining for my lover

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