(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.
Teeny
Definition:
(a.) Very small; tiny.
(a.) Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(2) In fact, he's a rampant homophobe, which usually suggests someone might actually be a teeny bit gay and trying to hide it – but he isn't, at all.
(3) News that gave me a teeny bit of hope for 21st century politics: attorney general Eric Holder and the Department of Justice filed suit against a North Carolina voting law.
(4) The ITV pictures showed him level when the ball was played, then the computer showed his leg was sticking out but, even if you accept it was accurate modelling, doesn't that mean he was level except a teeny weeny bit of him (what happened to the 'daylight' rule?).
(5) He gets a nice comic entrance – stepping out suddenly from beneath a vast coronation mantle to reveal how teeny-weeny he is.
(6) Teeny's daughter later remembered: "My mother told me that at one point Henry Miller had a crush on her, but he was rather vulgar ... whereas Marcel had a very light touch."
(7) "You could have it pumped directly into your stomach at ten pints a second and you would still metabolise the teeny tiny amounts of alcohol faster than it enters your body.
(8) Brigitte is a posh wendy house for grown ups, I realised as we squeezed ourselves inside the nine-metre-squared space, which somehow fits a double bed, a tiny table, chair and stool, a teeny bathroom with shower, two slender wardrobes, three shelves, and a kitchenette, with fridge, hob and coffee maker.
(9) When I was really teeny, I used to pull the curtains across the bay window and come out, play my plastic ukulele, and pretend to be Elvis Presley or Lonnie Donegan .
(10) Unlike the previous limited run Minecraft sets, which feature small sections of blocky landscape and teeny creepers and zombies, the two new sets The Cave and The Farm are scaled around normal-sized minifigure models – like most of the major Lego series.
(11) But it's only 20 quid, says my teeny voice of reason.
(12) I’m still in touch with some of the people who stayed in my teeny flat, and the thoughtful gifts left by others are on my shelf.
(13) Thanks to the imagination and energy of a new generation of performers and composers, the teenies could be better still.
(14) According to Teeny, it was the only time she had to remove his shoes before bed.
(15) The bricks are losing weight due to decades of radiation but a spokeswoman for EDF said the new limit was only a "teeny little step" that was well within the most conservative safety case.
(16) No doubt in some blue-sky meeting, some sunny morning before Steve Hilton left, when everyone was still allowed to wear sandals and think of ways to turn the UK into a teeny, cut-price America, this seemed like a good idea: why do charities have to stick their oar in?
(17) Mark Zuckerberg's baby got off to an inauspicious start; the shares had a teeny blip up after the start of trading but have gone downhill ever since.
(18) Now, back to Dr Ken: sweet, sincere, a teeny bit dull.
(19) Microsoft is also trying to court these teeny studios too – everyone wants to find the next big crossover hit, like Minecraft.
(20) Alexina Sattler (Teeny) In 1954, Duchamp married Sattler, the former wife of art dealer Pierre Matisse and son of the painter Henri Matisse.