harken

  1. Verb.  (alternative spelling of, hearken) ‘to listen, hear, regard’, more common form in the US.
  2. Verb.  (figuratively, US) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (qualifier, a past event or era) .

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