Definitions for moans

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moans moan

Spelling: [mohn]

IPA: /moʊn/

Moans is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in moans (amnos).

Definitions for moans

noun

1. a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
2. any similar sound:
3. complaint or lamentation.

verb (used with object)

1. to utter (something) inarticulately or pitifully, as if in lamentation:
2. to lament or bemoan:

verb (used without object)

1. to utter moans, as of pain or grief.
2. (of the wind, sea, trees, etc.) to make any sound suggestive of such moans:

Origin of moans

1175-1225; Middle English mone, man(e) (noun), Old English *mān, inferred from its derivative mǣnan to mourn

Examples for moans

Let her moan and groan and sigh away there—what did it matter!

Thereupon Macquart, seeing that he was about to be paid, began to moan.

As much as customers love to moan about small, uncomfortable seats, the demand for them is higher than ever.

The low, dull, moan of the Sabbath siren lulls you into the 25-hour respite from modernity.

The wood followed us with a moan which was gathering to a roar.

But, generally speaking, businesses scream and moan, react and innovate, and wind up in a better place.

Not a sound was heard but the moan of an occasional gust of wind.

Copper mining is the most toxic form of metal mining in the United States, but you can only moan and groan about it so much.

And the best his Republican opponents can do is moan about Benghazi.

Before she had laughed at the weird complaining; now it sounded like a moan of misery.