What's the difference between dearn and yearn?

Dearn


Definition:

  • (a.) Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.
  • (v. t.) Same as Darn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Making his announcement, Healey, MP for Wentworth and Dearne and a member of the party’s national executive, said he originally had no intention of standing but added: “I’ve been dismayed at how narrow and shallow Labour’s debate has been so far.” Writing for the Guardian , he said: “I know I’m a late entrant when others have been up and running for some time.
  • (2) The high court in London ordered Jane Collins to pay £54,000 each to Sarah Champion, Kevin Barron and John Healey, the MPs for Rotherham, Rother Valley, and Wentworth and Dearne respectively.
  • (3) Shadow minister for housing and planning John Healey, 55, MP for Wentworth and Dearne since 1997 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian In a shadow cabinet light on hands-on experience, Healey is notable for having done his job from the government benches; he served as housing minister under Brown from 2009-10, having been a junior minister since 2002.
  • (4) Transatlantic trade deal will undermine climate talks in favour of big business | Mark Dearn Read more It said the government must be allowed to expand the NHS without facing a legal challenge, and Brussels needed stronger evidence to back up its claim that the deal would bring a boost of £100bn a year to the UK.
  • (5) Speaking to Sky News in January last year, Caven Vines, the former leader of Ukip on Rotherham council, claimed that the MP for Wentworth and Dearne, John Healey, and the MP for Rother Valley, Sir Kevin Barron, “knew what was going on”.
  • (6) Privatising public services is no way to fund sustainable development | Mark Dearn and Meera Karunananthan Read more DfID has described its partnerships with the private sector as an “ engine of growth ”.
  • (7) Married to Ed Balls John Healey Votes 192 Age 50 Constituency Wentworth and Dearne Experience Former housing minister and prominent Balls supporter Ed Balls Votes 179 Age 43 Constituency Morley and Outwood Experience: Former children's secretary who failed in his bid to become Labour leader, partly because of his very close association with Gordon Brown Andy Burnham Vote 165 Age 40 Constituency Leigh Experience Former health secretary who stood for the leadership as the non-metropolitan candidate Angela Eagle Votes 165 Age 49 Constituency Wallasey Experience Treasury minister and pensions minister under Brown.
  • (8) John Healey The former trade union and charity campaigner has been the MP for Wentworth and Dearne since 1997.
  • (9) He then met locals in Belford, Northumberland who have developed a cheap, effective system of “bunds” to protect themselves from flooding and in the Dearne Valley, Yorkshire where similar work is proposed.

Yearn


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pain; to grieve; to vex.
  • (v. i.) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
  • (v. i. & t.) To curdle, as milk.
  • (v. i.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The next few days may well determine whether, this time, such loyalty will be in vain; but, while yearning for a clarion call and what was described as "vision" in this paper's leading article yesterday, I need to pose some pretty stark questions to Guardian readers.
  • (2) The therapist thus provides space for yearnings and compensatory 'counterworlds', frequently leading to a positive contact in a subsequent dialog about the wishes.
  • (3) I yearned for solitude; most of all, I wanted to sleep alone.
  • (4) This earlier shadow, this yearning and refracted autobiography, places Ballard at the heart of fiction of the unreal.
  • (5) The right not to be imprisoned without a fair trial has become the centrepiece of respect for the rule of law all around the world, and yet, when Ms Lynch stated at Runnymede that the fundamental principles of the Magna Carta have “given hopes to those who face oppression” and have “given a voice to those yearning for the redress of wrongs,” it was impossible not to think of Shaker Aamer, and others in Guantánamo, also “yearning for the redress of wrongs,” but finding that yearning repeatedly unfulfilled.
  • (6) As a Scot, I've found it hard not to compare the yearning for independence in Kashmir to the yearning for independence in Scotland.
  • (7) They have also retrofitted old-style nationalism for their growing populations of uprooted citizens, who harbour yearnings for belonging and community as well as material plenitude.
  • (8) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
  • (9) How can free expression and the yearning for a private life be protected in this murky arena of a gossip free-for-all?
  • (10) Cooper yearns to get back to the stage and hopes to appear in the National's new production of Racine's Phèdre next year.
  • (11) And what anti-immigrant opinion actually yearns for is to see fewer of these people on their high street."
  • (12) Nostalgia was the soldiers’ malady – a state of mind that made life in the here and now a debilitating process of yearning for that which had been lost: rose-tinted peace, happiness, loved ones.
  • (13) To send once more a message to those yearning faces beyond our shores that says, "You matter to us.
  • (14) They yearn to be taken seriously as a credible, national political force.
  • (15) The marked increased in yearning for cardiac life support skills amongst medical and nursing staff has been a major factor in the proliferation of life support training programmes at the Centre.
  • (16) Her entertaining descriptions of her time spent cooking in Chendung's famous cooking school combined with her simple, concise translations of what she learned made me yearn to start cooking immediately.
  • (17) Because people whose entire news network is dedicated to stoking the fear, anger and passions of citizens by way of animating myths and repeated use of the word “they” – they all know that 100% accuracy is immaterial to that which the heart yearns to hear.
  • (18) Sue: No matter what age, what gender, everybody feels a deep heart and groin yearning for Mary.
  • (19) Bernie is giving voice to a yearning that is out there, and that’s going to be very hard for the political establishment to overcome.” “[Tea Party Republicans] see their life chances limited, their country deteriorating along with their hopes for their children,” she adds.
  • (20) The demise of traditional opposition movements has led many to look for alternative forms of struggle, and created a yearning for God-given moral lines.

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