TEENED

Verb

teened

simple past tense and past participle of teen

Source: Wiktionary


TEEN

Teen, n. Etym: [OE. tene, AS. teóna reproach, wrong, fr. teón to accuse; akin to G. zeihen, Goth. gateihan to tell, announce, L. dicere to say. See Token.]

Definition: Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold.

Teen, v. t. Etym: [AS. teónian, t, to slander, vex. *64. See Teen, n.]

Definition: To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Teen, v. t. Etym: [See Tine to shut.]

Definition: To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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BEATIFY

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