verb · transitive · rare

moan

moan · moans · moaned · moaning

стогнати

стонать

stöhnen, jammern, schluchzen, ächzen

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

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UK/məʊn/US/moʊn/

» The crowd moaned.

Натовп стогнав.

Meaning

6 senses

(UK, transitive)To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
(intransitive, poetic)To grieve.
wehklagen, beklagen
(intransitive)To make a moan or similar sound.
She moaned with pleasure and squirmed with delight from receiving oral sex.
stöhnen, ächzen
стона́тьstonátʹ
стогна́тиstohnáty
(transitive)To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.
jammern, stöhnen, schluchzen
(colloquial, intransitive)To complain; to grumble.
klagen, beklagen, maulen
(obsolete, transitive)To distress (someone); to sadden.

More definitions

indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure

Examples

70 sentences

The crowd moaned.
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Tom moaned in pain and screamed for help.
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I'm tired of hearing you moan and groan.
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Tom heard a moan.
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Tom moaned in pain.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

to make a moan or similar sound:

Русский

By meaning 1

to make a moan or similar sound:

Deutsch

By meaning 5

to grieve (poetic):

to make a moan or similar sound:

to say with a moaning voice:

to complain:

to grumble (colloquial):

Origin

From Middle English mone, mane, mān, (also as mene), from Old English *mān, *mǣn (“complai

From Middle English mone, mane, mān, (also as mene), from Old English *mān, *mǣn (“complaint; lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *mainu, from Proto-Germanic *mainō (“opinion; mind”).

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