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Another word for hanker

Verb

  1. To have a strong longing for

    2. See also:

    desire

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Another word for hanker

Verb
    2. See also:

    want

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The death of an uncle, who had occupied the see of Cortona with great pomp, induced the young Guicciardini to hanker after an ecclesiastical career.

  • hanker after the bright lights of Edinburgh, the place in which she was born and brought up.

  • hanker after a quite life.

  • hanker for election day to come to put the Democratic party in office.

  • The death of an uncle, who had occupied the see of Cortona with great pomp, induced the young Guicciardini to hanker after an ecclesiastical career.

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