Usually means: Loud wailing to express grief.
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  1. keening: Merriam-Webster
  2. keening: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keening: Collins English Dictionary
  4. keening: Vocabulary.com
  5. keening: Wordnik
  6. keening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. keening: Wiktionary
  8. keening: Infoplease Dictionary
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  10. Keening: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Keening: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. keening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. keening: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (keening)

adjective:  Sharp, shrill, especially of a sound.
noun:  Intense mournful wailing after a death, often at a funeral or wake.
noun:  (by extension) An unpleasant wailing sound.

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