Definition of "keens" []

• Plural form of keen. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keen. (verb)

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• "I'm in chapter eleven, and so far I adore this book. * keens and rocks and clutches it close*"
• ""Grounds for Divorce", for example, keens, yearns and growls, Garvey smashing a snare drum as the crowd whoa-oh along."
• "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."