0 past simple and past participle of moan
1 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.
2 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.
In the examination he cried and moaned as if in acute pain, but he could not verbalize these affective signs of distress.
It also displays understanding that where such problems arise, they must be tackled and not simply identified and moaned about.
All around people cried and moaned.
During my days in local government, we always moaned about never knowing from one moment to the next what was required of us.
What a minority of them moaned about was that it should be so well-paid.
My father started farming in 1896, and moaned that what he had saved in 1904 was not worth a quarter of its value in 1917.
In the main, the engineers have not moaned about that.
They have moaned enough about this.
