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- noun Plural form of
keen . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
keen .
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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.
Elbow – review 2011
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I'm in chapter eleven, and so far I adore this book. * keens and rocks and clutches it close*
a complex and sometimes lethal machine barbara_hambly 2009
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She keens more toward the obvious and literal aspects of the work.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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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. 2008
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She keens more toward the obvious and literal aspects of the work.
Cold Dark Matter 2008
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Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens.
Archive 2010-02-01 Fresca 2010
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Every time the noise died away, Fareed would let go with another of his patented keens.
The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010
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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 Fresca 2010
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