Definitions for complains

complains com·plain

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

Complains is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 709 anagrams from letters in complains (acilmnops).

Definitions for complains

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

Origin of complains

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 complains

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Word Value for complains
Scrable

14

Words with friends

19

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