moaning

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.

   Synonyms:

   lament, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, darken, engrieve, erme, gloom, grieve, grieven

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.

   Synonyms:

   whine, beef, bellyache, bemoan, bitch, bleat, whimper, carp, chunter, complain

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...

   Synonyms:

   deject, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, bring down, come down on

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