longed
v.v. wanted something very much, especially when it was hard to get or far away. You use this when you feel a strong, sad desire for something.
v. past tense of 'long'; felt a strong, persistent, and often wistful desire for something or someone. Typically describes an emotional state rather than a physical need.
She longed for a quiet day at the beach.
After years of living in the crowded city, he longed for the silence of the countryside.
The exiled poet longed for his homeland, often writing verses that captured the specific scents and sounds of the streets he could no longer walk.
Intransitive; almost always followed by the preposition 'for' or a 'to-infinitive'.
She longed the summer holidays.She longed for the summer holidays.The verb is intransitive and requires the preposition 'for' before a noun phrase.