stretch.
2. years a. age, lifetime, life span; generation, duration, stage of life. b. old age, agedness, oldness, elderliness; senescence, senectitude, second childhood, senility, anility, caducity, dotage, decrepitude,
c. time, long time, aeon, chiliad, millenium, century, decade.
3. year in and year out regularly, continuously, over and over again, without a break; unfailingly, unchangingly, everlastingly, interminably, endlessly, never-endingly.
yearn, v. desire, wish for, long for, set one's heart on, desiderate, want; hope for, care for, pine for, sigh for; hanker after, have a yen for, covet, fancy, have a fancy for; have an eye to, be attracted to, have a mind to, have at heart, be bent upon; be inclined towards, be predisposed towards, prefer; crave, hunger, thirst, relish; lust after, burn for, Inf. be wild or mad about, SI. have the hots for, Inf. letch after,
yearning, n. desire, longing, desideration, wish, wishing; hope, hoping, pining, sighing; hankering, Inf. yen, SI. itch, SI. itching; aspiration, emulation, ambition; fancy, fancying, coveting, covetousness, eagerness, ardor, craving; appetency, appetite, hunger, thirst, ravenousness; rapaciousness, voracity, voraciousness; avidity, greed, greediness, avarice; mania, craze, rage; passion, obsession, fixation,
yeast, n. 1. ferment, mold, bacteria, leaven, mother, Brit. Inf. barm; pepsin, enzyme.
2. foam, head, froth, spume, lather, suds, bubbles; foaminess, frothiness, spumescence.
3. agitation, state of unrest, confusion, stew, brouhaha, fuss, Inf. to-do, turmoil, hubbub, commotion, tumult, Inf. a can of worms.
-v. 4. ferment, leaven, rise; work, turn, foam, bubble, effervesce,
yeasty, adj. 1. fermenting, fermentative, barmy, frothy, foamy, spumous, spumy, spumescent, lathery.
2. exuberant, ebullient, high-spirited, exhilarated, buoyant, bouncy; animated, effervescent, enthused, enthusiastic, irrepressible; zestful, energetic, lively.
3. frivolous, trivial, trifling, fribbling, nugatory, niggling, Inf. piddling; unimportant, insignificant, inconsiderable, petty, paltry; light, airy, frothy, slight, flimsy.
4. agitated, excited, stirred-up, wound-up, whipped-up; frantic, frenzied, mad; unsettled, ruffled, flustered; impassioned, fired-up.
yell, v. shout, clamor, cry out, scream, Inf. holler; exclaim, ejaculate, blast out, blurt out, sing out; shriek, screech, squall, hoot, ululate, squeal, whoop; bark, bellow, roar, yelp, yip, yawl, blare; howl, yowl, yammer;