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keen

/kin/ verbo C2

En español: plañir, lamentar

  1. To utter a keen. (intransitive)
  2. To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry. (transitive)
  3. To mourn. (transitive)

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The light showed a pale, square-jawed face with keen eyes, and a little white scar near his right eyebrow.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 22 · C1
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.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 27 · C1
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.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 5 · B2
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.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 5 · B2

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