noun
definition
A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
verb
definition
To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
definition
To grieve.
definition
To distress (someone); to sadden.
definition
To make a moan or similar sound.
definition
To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
example
‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.
definition
To complain; to grumble.
Examples of moans in a Sentence
The cook's moans had now subsided.
Hearing those moans Prince Andrew wanted to weep.
Piteous, helpless, animal moans came through the door.
Her moans grow in strength from low whimpers of joy to shouts of ecstasy.
My mother sat beside my little bed and tried to soothe my feverish moans while in her troubled heart she prayed, "Father in Heaven, spare my baby's life!"
So may the Devil I Respite their souls from Heaven!"; Hellas, 657, "Bask in the [deep] blue noon divine"; Julian and Maddalo, 218, where "Moans, shrieks, and curses, and blaspheming prayers" is absent in the earlier editions though required for the rhyme; so lines 299-301 of the Letter to Maria Gisborne.
There were gasps and slight moans from the eight against the wall, and this perturbed our captor.
For long minutes, moans issued from the writhing forms until all sound and movement ceased.
The winter wind has come a-calling and moans through cracks and crevices like so many ghosts visiting from hell, wailing and beckoning for me to join them.
Through the open window the moans of the adjutant could be heard more distinctly.
But in the yard there was a light from the fire at Little Mytishchi a mile and a half away, and through the night came the noise of people shouting at a tavern Mamonov's Cossacks had set up across the street, and the adjutant's unceasing moans could still be heard.
Oh, ooh! his frightened moans could be heard, subdued by suffering and broken by sobs.