Definitions for complain

complain com·plain

Spelling: [kuh m-pleyn]
IPA: /kəmˈpleɪn/

Complain is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 360 anagrams from letters in complain (acilmnop).

Definitions for complain

verb (used without object)

  1. to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault:
  2. to tell of one's pains, ailments, etc.:
  3. to make a formal accusation:

Origin of complain

1350-1400; Middle English compleinen Anglo-French compleign-, stem of compleindre, Old French complaindre Vulgar Latin *complangere, equivalent to Latin com- com- + pl

Examples for complain

I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, Agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.

His subordinate officers may complain that they have had no fighting.

Those that dared to complain were punished with bad shifts, demoted, or even fired.

And it might be what Islamists complain about while sitting in their caves.

They complain there are so few unobjectionable tracts to give them.

"That is the very thing of which I complain," said his lordship.

When they complain that there is no future for them here,” she confides after a long pause, “I worry they are right.

Should it be ever so unhappily, will it be prudence to complain or appeal?

“His wife went for the visit and suddenly started to complain about the cuts,” Guadalupe told The Daily Beast.

At sundown of the second day he began to complain of the irksomeness of his bonds.

Word Value for complain
Scrable

14

Words with friends

19

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