Seized or overcome with longing.

With after or infinitive. Seized or overcome with longing for, or to do, something; = oflonged, adj.

That longs for something or someone; characterized by strong desire or yearning.

figurative (a) Full (of a thing) so as to be ready to burst; teeming; = big, adj. 6b; (b) eager, longing, yearning (to do something).

Full of yearning; characterized by or expressive of strong desire or longing; (also) affected or characterized by compassion or strong feeling…

Of the eye or look, tone, feeling, etc.: Full of desire; longing, yearning, wistful. (Cf. desirous, adj. 2.)

That yearns or longs. Cf. green, v.2

with twins (strengthening of with child, child, n. phrases 1c(b)). figurative greatly longing. rare.