0 to make a long, low sound of pain, suffering, or another strong emotion:
He moaned with pain before losing consciousness.
"Let me die," he moaned.
1 to make a complaint in an unhappy voice, usually about something that does not seem important to other people:
Thelma's always moaning (about something), and forgets how lucky she actually is.
[ + speech ] "I don't like potatoes," he moaned.
[ + (that) ] First she moans (that) she's too hot, and then that she's too cold.
After a lot of moaning and groaning, they eventually started work.
2 a long, low sound of pain, suffering, or another strong emotion:
3 the act of complaining about something, or a complaint:
4 to make a long, low sound because of pain or suffering, or to say something in a complaining way:
The call-and-response was embellished to include exchanges of some naasty moans and groans.
All around people cried and moaned.
We are agitating for positive change, rather than moaning about isolated problems.
Moans and groans and the shaking of a head.
There has been moaning and groaning, but people have carried on.
I am opposed to the individuals who go about moaning about conditions which they say are going to pull us down as a nation.
I have no moans of estimating the expenditure incurred by the parties, none of which was borne by the public revenue.
Let me for a few moments examine what such a statement moans.
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