Word Finder - moaning

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To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.

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To grieve.

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To distress (someone); to sadden.

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To make a moan or similar sound.

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To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.

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‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.

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To complain; to grumble.

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The utterance of a moan.

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the moanings of the wounded men

She pressed against him, moaning with delight.

Toward evening he ceased moaning and became quite still.

The next morning, the roommate could hear her friend moaning in the bathroom.

The awful pain he suffered made him moan incessantly and piteously, and his moaning sounded terrible in the darkness of the autumn night.

Natasha knew it was not Prince Andrew who was moaning.

This job would be great if not for the moaning gits we have to deal with every day, day in day out.

He 's also picked up the habbit of moaning & whinging alot if he doesnt get enough attention, its cute but annoying sometimes.

Along the way, he's helped and hindered by Dobby, the house elf, and moaning Myrtle, a morose ghost.

She was hell on wheels, moaning and carrying on something wicked!

Don't join a clique, especially of moaning ex-pats.

The third member of the team is their Grandad, an indolent, scruffy man constantly moaning about his lot in life.

There should be no moaning about edge enhancement this time around either, as I couldn't spot any.

What a moaning ninny, especially when he goes on abour referees.

I heard cries, supplications, moaning, and shots.

Start moaning while casting reproachful looks at the offender.

Then a line from some thesp moaning about their euphoric state, with a bit of sitar playing thrown in.

The other talking point, for fans on the Grandstand side anyway, was the non-stop whinging and moaning of Tranmere boss Ray Mathias.

What a whinging moaning bunch of Miss The Boater 's you lot are.

That sound you hear in the background is probably the sound of some people moaning about politics and such, but download this track and see what the Chicks music is all about.

Fans of the stark, moaning, experimental music of the first Terminator soundtrack are likely to enjoy the similar mechanical tone of the second.

Needless to say some people thought to be dead weren't and sounds of scratching and moaning could be heard from under the Earth.

That night she woke to hear him moaning.

She dropped to the snow, clutching her knee and moaning.

God, you ought to hear him moaning in his sleep!

The shouting in the tavern had died down; only the moaning of the adjutant was heard.

We seem here to have a remnant of the very ancient and widely diffused tree-worship. Sometimes, however, auguries were taken in other manners, being drawn from the moaning of doves in the branches, the murmur of a fountain which rose close by, or the resounding of the wind in the brazen caldrons which formed a circle all round the temple.

The roar of guns, the whistling of projectiles, and the piteous moaning of the cook, which rose above the other sounds, did not cease for a moment.

The flogging was only just over, and the executioner was releasing from the flogging bench a stout man with red whiskers, in blue stockings and a green jacket, who was moaning piteously.

In her imagination he was that terrible moaning personified.

In the lobby, she found the secretary on the floor, clutching her leg and moaning in agony.

She was listening to the ceaseless moaning of the adjutant, three houses off.

I seem to remember you moaning one time that Josh viewed you as nothing more than an arm ornament.

When he did so and heard the subdued moaning with which Karataev generally lay down at the halting places, and when he smelled the odor emanating from him which was now stronger than before, Pierre moved farther away and did not think about him.

Ms. Nightingale murmured a room number and motioned down a hall crowded with bodies like the day after Gettysburg while white-coated figures strolled among the moaning, clip boards in hand With wide-eyed Fred following behind, Dean ran the gauntlet until he found the room, a small office packed with five men and a lot of smoke, three of them in Philadelphia Police uniforms.

She knew Prince Andrew was in the same yard as themselves and in a part of the hut across the passage; but this dreadful incessant moaning made her sob.

It consists at times of a low deep moaning, repeated five or six times, ending in faintly audible sighs; at other times he startles the forest with loud, deep-toned, solemn roars, repeated in quick succession, each increasing in loudness to the third or fourth, when his.

It chanced that I walked that way across the fields the following night, about the same hour, and hearing a low moaning at this spot, I drew near in the dark, and discovered the only survivor of the family that I know, the heir of both its virtues and its vices, who alone was interested in this burning, lying on his stomach and looking over the cellar wall at the still smouldering cinders beneath, muttering to himself, as is his wont.