teen

[teen]

A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

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Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.

Adjective S.
being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years"


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.


Teen

Teen , n. [OE. tene, AS. te'a2na reproach, wrong, fr. te'a2n to accuse; akin to G. zeihen, Goth. gateihan to tell, announce, L. dicere to say. See Token.] Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser.
With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.

Teen

Teen, v. t. [AS. te'a2nian, tnan, to slander, vex. 'fb64. See Teen, n.] To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Teen

Teen, v. t. [See Tine to shut.] To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.

To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure.

To hedge or fence in; to inclose.

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Usage Examples

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.

Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.

Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.

Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian. I didn't think it was going to go this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

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