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HANKER
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they hanker ... he / she / it hankers
Past simple: hankered
Past participle: hankered
-ing form: hankering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Desire strongly or persistently
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "hanker" is one way to...):
desire; want (feel or have a desire for; want strongly)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hanker"):
ache; languish; pine; yearn; yen (have a desire for something or someone who is not present)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
They hanker to move
Derivation:
hankering (a yearning for something or to do something)
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