Yearn vs. Pine — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Yearn and Pine
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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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