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verb (v)

• desire strongly or persistently(verb.emotion)

  Synonym:
  long, yearn
  

  source: wordnet30
• To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.(verb)

  source: webster1913