keen
/kin/ verb C2- To utter a keen.
- To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
- To mourn.
He/she/it keens · Past keened · Past participle keened · -ing form keening
Verb forms
- Base form
- keen
- He/she/it
- keens
- Past
- keened
- Past participle
- keened
- -ing form
- keening
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The light showed a pale, square-jawed face with keen eyes, and a little white scar near his right eyebrow.
To the society bud comes but one début; it stands alone sweet in her memory when her hair has whitened; but to Chandler each ten weeks brought a joy as keen, as thrilling, as new as the first had been.
Something of his birthplace seemed to cling to the man, and I never looked at his pale, keen face or the poise of his head without associating him with grey archways and mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep.
Once or twice we drifted into talk, and I can remember that more than once he expressed a keen interest in my methods of observation and inference.
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