Teen
[tiːn] or ['tinedʒ]
Definition
(n.) Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.
(n.) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure.
(v. t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose.
Edited by Gertrude
Definition
n. (arch.) grief affliction injury.
v.t. (Spens.) to allot bestow.
v.t. (Spens.) to excite provoke.
Edited by Leah
Examples
- Why, I have known that grandmother of mine lie in her bed and drink her four-teen glasses of liquor before breakfast! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- In fact, I have just turned into my teens, says Mr. Jobling. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I was as awkward and as shy with her, as if I had been a lad in my teens. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I don't call myself a child, and I'm not in my teens yet, observed Amy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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