harken

Verb

Verb Forms: harkened, harkening, harkens

• To listen; an archaic or poetic variant of HARK.
• listen; used mostly in the imperative
• Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard.
• To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).

Examples

• He would harken to the dictionary, hoping to find a word that fit his tiles.

Synonyms

hark, hearken