| query | If someone p___ a letter, article, or book, they write it.If someone pens a letter, article, or book, they write it. I really intended to pen this letter to you early this morning. She penned a short memo to his private secretary. |
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| word | pen |
| full-definition | noun A pen is a long thin object which you use to write in ink. A pen is also a small area with a fence round it in which farm animals are kept for a short time. ...a holding pen for sheep. He wasn't sure exactly how a fox could have got into the sheep's pen. People sometimes say the pen to refer to a prison . verb If someone pens a letter, article, or book, they write it. I really intended to pen this letter to you early this morning. She penned a short memo to his private secretary. If people or animals are penned somewhere or are penned up, they are forced to remain in a very small area. ...to drive the cattle back to the house so they could be milked and penned for the night. The goats are penned in and fodder has to be cut and carried each day. I don't have to stay in my room penned up like a prisoner. |
| inflections | penspenningpenned |
| cefr-level | A1 |
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