Definitions
Wailing or crying in grief.
Word origin
From keen + -ing, from Irish caoin.
Used in a sentence
“The keening sound of a dentist's drill sets my teeth on edge.”
“As Black Sabbath’s doomsayer-in-chief, Osbourne could summon a true sense of terror in his keening cries in a way that heightened the band’s muscular dirges.”
“Keening. I remember keening that seemed to go on all through the night: shrill, sharp, shiny, needles of sound piercing cleanly and deeply to let the anguish in, not out.”
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01“Wailing in grief”7 letters
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