hanker
21hanker\ after — • lust for • hanker after v. phr. To physically yearn for; want something very strongly. Ed has been lusting after Meg for a very long time …
22hanker after/for/to do something — feel a desire for or to do something. → hanker …
23hanker — intransitive verb (hankered; hankering) Etymology: probably from Dutch dialect hankeren Date: 1627 to have a strong or persistent desire ; yearn often used with for or after Synonyms: see long • hankerer noun …
24hanker — hankerer, n. /hang keuhr/, v.i. to have a restless or incessant longing (often fol. by after, for, or an infinitive). [1595 1605; < early D dial. hankeren (c. D hunkeren), freq. of hangen to HANG] Syn. See yearn. * * * …
25hanker — verb ADVERB ▪ secretly ▪ always ▪ still PREPOSITION ▪ after ▪ She s always hankering after excitement …
26hanker — Synonyms and related words: ache, covet, crave, desire, fancy, hunger, hunger after, hunger for, itch for, long for, lust, lust after, lust for, pine, pine for, sigh, thirst, thirst after, thirst for, want, wish, yearn, yearn for, yen …
27hanker — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. desire, covet, crave, long for, yearn for. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. crave, deSire, wish for; see want 1 . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To have a strong longing for: ache, covet, desire, long2, pant …
28hanker — han·ker || hæŋkÉ™(r) v. desire, crave, long for …
29hanker — harken …
30hanker — han·ker …
