(n.) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure.
(v. t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
(2) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(3) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
(4) Effects on pre-LDA teens, adolescents targeted by LDA, initiation at LDA, and post-LDA drinking experience were assessed.
(5) Counselors who serve pregnant US teens face a number of obstacles in communicating adoption as a positive alternative.
(6) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
(7) The most difficult problem is education of teen-age girls in the use of contraceptives.
(8) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(9) Roche, 30, was born in High Wycombe, but moved with her British parents to Germany as a young child, and has been a national celebrity there since her teens, presenting music and culture shows.
(10) For a writer barely out of his teens when it was published, in 1946, the book was an unusual achievement.
(11) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
(12) Three of the women here today are in their late teens or early 20s, travelling alone.
(13) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
(14) A total of 95% of new patients who attended the university's teen pregnancy clinic between May 8, 1989, and December 8, 1990, were interviewed.
(15) Even if Ian and I were still double dating as we did in our teens then the prospect of a reunion wouldn't interest me at all."
(16) In teens, however, birth weight was 200-400 g lower than in the adults in all weight-for-height categories except at 140% or more of standard.
(17) The physician who cares for adolescents has the responsibility of helping parenting teens to find needed support so that they will be able to overcome this significant hurdle.
(18) 62% of the teens--58% of those who delivered (the D group) and 65% of those who chose abortions (the A group)--indicated that their pregnancies were unwanted.
(19) "I had spent my teen years listening to Germaine Greer and Susie Orbach talking about female intellect," she says, and cheers all round.
(20) The aim of this work is to investigate the anti-comedo activity of 20% azelaic acid cream topically applied in a group of teen-agers affected by acne.
Teenager
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
(2) Asian teenagers had a 50% marker rate and a 27.2% rate for persistent antigenemia.
(3) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(4) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(5) His coding talent attracted attention early: a music-recommendation program he wrote as a teenager brought approaches from both Microsoft and AOL.
(6) As a young teenager I was obsessed with sex: to be held in a man's arms would confirm that I was a woman.
(7) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
(8) It is recommended that further research be directed toward uncovering the emotional and cognitive resources of teenage mothers rather than focusing on their more obvious weaknesses.
(9) As regards hepatitis A, the study of the 2 groups was completed by a sero-epidemiological survey of 509 children and teenagers aged from 1 to 18 years.
(10) These teenagers were classified as heavy drinkers; the males knew less about alcohol, and had different attitudes to its use than their peers.
(11) The chief source of VD information for all teenagers was friends.
(12) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
(13) This is based on data from teenagers and young adults aged 12-20 years.
(14) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(15) The regulator defines teenagers as aged between 12 and 15, with adults 16-years-old and above.
(16) The majority of the teenagers were between 16 and 19 years old at the time of the interview.
(17) The fundamental frequency of the children's dysfluent speech was higher than their fluent speech while there was no difference in the teenager's speech.
(18) Student participation in school-based suicide prevention programs, however, was associated with a detrimental effect on state teenage suicide rates.
(19) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
(20) The family of Naftali Frenkel, one of the the murdered Israeli teenagers, has condemned the apparent revenge attack on a Palestinian teenager.