aches for
Yearns to have
To ache for something is to long for it intensely, with a desire so strong it feels physical: She ached for home, He aches for her touch.
The phrase suggests yearning mixed with pain—wanting something absent or unattainable.
You can ache for a person, a place, or an abstract state like freedom or recognition.
- cravesDesires intensely
- dying toIntensely eager for
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- homesicknessLonging for one's dwelling
- empty armsLimbs with nothing held
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