Yearn
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To long, have a strong desire (for something). To long back with melancholy, nostalgically
Example sentence: When women told me they'd always wished they had a sister, they were thinking of this ideal of mutual encouragement and support. Many of those who have sisters also yearn for this ideal because their relationships with their sisters don't always live up to it.
Pine
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.The wood of pine tree.A painful longing.
Example sentence: I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.