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Definition of keen verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

keen

verb
 
/kiːn/
 
/kiːn/
[intransitive] usually used in the progressive tenses (literary)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they keen
 
/kiːn/
 
/kiːn/
he / she / it keens
 
/kiːnz/
 
/kiːnz/
past simple keened
 
/kiːnd/
 
/kiːnd/
past participle keened
 
/kiːnd/
 
/kiːnd/
-ing form keening
 
/ˈkiːnɪŋ/
 
/ˈkiːnɪŋ/
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  1. to make a loud, high sad sound, when somebody has died
    Word Originverb mid 19th cent.: from Irish caoinim ‘I wail’.
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