moan
IPA: mˈoʊn
noun
- a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
verb
- (transitive, now rare) To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
- (intransitive, now chiefly poetic) To grieve.
- (intransitive) To make a moan or similar sound.
- (transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To complain; to grumble.
- (transitive, obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden.
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Examples of "moan" in Sentences
- The entire P.E. class groaned in unison, and my moan was the loudest of all.
- Then come the hippos, who moan from the nearby Chari River (we didn't know they were hippos at the time).
- The moan was a wordless cry of hunger that drifted to them through the pillars of oak trees, like the plaintive call of a wandering ghost.
- Why she thinks that anyone cares about her weight, or why she thinks it's necessary to go to a major magazine and bitch and moan is beyond me.
- Then there was a sort of sighing moan from the crowd on the cliff, who had been there all night for the French to land, and then Lord Arden's voice –
- A moan from the sickly lad in the corner of the hut, roused David from the amazed stare with which he was contemplating the little eager, wiry, energetic old man.
- The sugar train to Matanzas started with a trundle and a high moan from the horn, pulling away from the suburbs of Havana with stateliness rather than speed, pursued by stragglers who hopped aboard like hobos catching a freight.
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