Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
keen . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
keen .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Grounds for Divorce", for example, keens, yearns and growls, Garvey smashing a snare drum as the crowd whoa-oh along.
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I'm in chapter eleven, and so far I adore this book. * keens and rocks and clutches it close*
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She keens more toward the obvious and literal aspects of the work.
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Part love story and part elegy for the terrible choices we must often make to survive, My Enemy's Cradle keens for what we lose in war and sings for the hope we sometimes find.
My Enemy's Cradle: Summary and book reviews of My Enemy's Cradle by Sara Young.
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She keens more toward the obvious and literal aspects of the work.
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Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens.
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Every time the noise died away, Fareed would let go with another of his patented keens.
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She observed the wailing child for the first couple of moments helplessly until one of the more piercing keens jarred her into a sense of action.
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The criminal psychiatrist who keens with the victims and absorbs the mantle of the murderers, cloaks himself in their hatreds and spites, their pathologies, mimics them, imagines himself them, even if he is incapable of forming attachments to women he desires.
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Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens.
Better Things for Better Living or Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky
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