Longed for, like an ancient barbarian with terrible greed (8)

I believe the answer is:

hungered

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'longed for like an ancient' is the definition.
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'barbarian with terrible greed' is the wordplay.
'barbarian' becomes 'hun' (as in Atilla the Hun).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'terrible' indicates anagramming the letters.
'greed' is an anagram of 'gered'.
'hun'+'gered'='HUNGERED'

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