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moanest

moanest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of moan.

Meaning of moan

Verb

moan (third-person singular simple present moans, present participle moaning, simple past and past participle moaned)

  1. (UK, transitive) To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
    • Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (intransitive, poetic) To grieve.
  3. (intransitive) To make a moan or similar sound.
    • She moaned with pleasure and squirmed with delight from receiving oral sex.
  4. (transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
    • ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.
  5. (colloquial, intransitive) To complain; to grumble.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To distress (someone); to sadden.
    • which infinitely moans me1626 February 1 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey...

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Origin of moanest

moan + -est

Questions about moanest

What is moanest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Moanest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of moan.

Words near moanest in the dictionary

  1. Moane
  2. moaned
  3. moaner
  4. moaner's bench
  5. moaners
  6. moanest
  7. moaneth
  8. moanful
  9. moanfully
  10. moanier
  11. moaniest

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