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Answer for the clue "Wail like a banshee ", 4 letters:
keen

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Keen \Keen\, n. [Ir. caoine.] A prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. Coranach . [Ireland] --Froude.

Usage examples of keen.

Then calling on the name of Allah, he gave a last keen cunning sweep with the blade, and following that, the earth awfully quaked and groaned, as if speaking in the abysmal tongue the Mastery of the Event to all men.

Beckoning his companions, Acies led them through the forest, keen eyes searching for something.

It carried the boy to a smaller form that Acies could easily pick out with his keen eyes.

Britain was not keen to legislate against addictive drugs was that it was making vast amounts of money by flogging opium to the Chinese.

His keen eyes detected slight aerosol droplets, revealed in a shaft of sunlight viewed against shade.

The alienists listened with keen attention to his words, since their curiosity had been aroused to a high pitch by the suggestive yet mostly conflicting and incoherent stories of his family and neighbors.

The descent was accomplished with a minimum of noise, and even Amity managed to creep through the shrubbery without attracting the keen ears of the watchdogs.

He wanted to destroy them all, so that he would feel less lonely, and, in order to penetrate this absence with his annihilating presence, he left the jeep behind at a forgotten township where a green track ended and an ancient whisky priest sat all day in the ruins of a forsaken church brewing fire-water from wild bananas and keening the stations of the cross.

He stood with tiller in hand, keen eyes asquint against the sky, watching the sail and calling sharp commands which the others instantly obeyed.

She was as keen as anyone could be to hear the latest details of an Avenger crime.

They would be recorded, in all probability, in the Avifauna Journal - a small publication of limited circulation which went to keen students of bird life.

The thing was done so rapidly that the sheriff--a sly, keen fellow, worthy of his clients Barbet and Metivier--found the lad weeping in his chair when he entered the wretched room, after assuring himself that the manuscripts were not in the antechamber.

She wished, belatedly, that she had had the patience to stand by, as Lowenthal had done, and watch the farce unfold while wearing an expression of keen concentration.

Perhaps it was this curious underground chamber that Billard was so keen to get his hands on.

Sir John Bittle had an uncomfortable feeling that those eyes were keen enough to note the slightest tightening of a muscle.