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Verb: hanker  hang-ku(r)
  1. Desire strongly or persistently
    "Psychiatrists still hanker after classifications of mental diseases";
    - long, yearn, pant [informal]

Derived forms: hankered, hankering, hankers

Type of: desire, want

Encyclopedia: Hanker, Cairns, and Wallace