Definition of "keened" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of keen. (verb)

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• "[S] he took Sato Kenji by their linked hands and led him to the rickety, shivering place between the carriage cars, where the wind keened and crooned through the cracks in the grating and the white walls gave way to chrome."
• ""We thought Hollywood was our friend," they moaned... "first Atlas Shrugged, and now this?" they keened."
• "Many have torn their hair, beaten their breasts, and keened about the demise of independent and used bookstores."