moan
/moʊn/ verb C2- To grieve.
- To make a moan or similar sound. · She moaned with pleasure and squirmed with delight from receiving oral sex.
- To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice. · ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.
- To complain; to grumble.
Plural moan · He/she/it moans · Past moaned · Past participle moaned · -ing form moaning
Verb forms
- Base form
- moan
- He/she/it
- moans
- Past
- moaned
- Past participle
- moaned
- -ing form
- moaning
From the library
Baloo clasped his paws over his ears and rolled to and fro moaning.
From the walls came a moan like the wind in the tree-tops--“We see, O Kaa.”
“Yes, it’s green,” moaned Anne.
Edmond made great exertions in order to comply; but at each effort he fell back, moaning and turning pale.
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