Usually means: Felt a strong desire for.
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  1. yearned: Merriam-Webster
  2. yearned: Collins English Dictionary
  3. yearned: Vocabulary.com
  4. Yearned, yearned: Wordnik
  5. yearned: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. yearned: Wiktionary
  7. yearned: Dictionary.com
  8. yearned: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Yearned: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Yearned: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. yearned: FreeDictionary.org
  12. yearned: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See yearn as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (yearn)

verb:  (intransitive, also figuratively) To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.
verb:  (specifically) To long for something in the past with melancholy or nostalgia.
verb:  (intransitive) Of music, words, etc.: to express strong desire or longing.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc., toward someone.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be distressed or pained; to grieve; to mourn.
verb:  (transitive) Often followed by out: to perform (music) which conveys or say (words) which express strong desire or longing.
verb:  (transitive, archaic or poetic) To have a strong desire or longing (for something or to do something).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cause (someone) to have strong feelings of affection, love, sympathy, etc.; also, to grieve or pain (someone).
noun:  A strong desire or longing; a yearning, a yen.
verb:  (Northern England, Scotland, intransitive)
verb:  Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.
verb:  Of cheese: to be made from curdled milk.
verb:  (Northern England, Scotland, transitive)
verb:  To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
verb:  To make (cheese) from curdled milk.
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