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• moan — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ faint, little, low, quiet, small, soft ▪ deep ▪ muffled …   Collocations dictionary

• moan — 01. The accident victim lay on the ground, [moaning] with pain. 02. The wind [moaned] in the trees. 03. I heard a [moan], and turned to see my tennis partner sitting on the ground, holding his ankle. 04. We could hear my friends making love in… …   Grammatical examples in English

• moan — I n. 1) to emit a moan 2) a barely audible, feeble, weak; loud moan II v. 1) to moan feebly; loudly 2) (D; intr.) to moan about, over (to moan over new taxes) 3) (D; intr.) to moan with (to moan moan pain) * * * [məʊn] feeble loud moan …   Combinatory dictionary

• moan 1 — loudly over (to moan 1 over new taxes) (D: intr.) to moan 1 about to moan 1 feebly (D; intr.) to moan 1 with (to moan moan 1 pain) …   Combinatory dictionary

• moan — [mōn] n. [ME mone, prob. < base of OE mænan, to complain: see MEAN1] 1. Archaic a complaint; lamentation 2. a low, mournful sound of sorrow or pain 3. any sound like this [the moan of the wind] vi. 1. to utter …   English World dictionary

• moan — [[t]mo͟ʊn[/t]] moans, moaning, moaned 1) VERB If you moan, you make a low sound, usually because you are unhappy or in pain. Tony moaned in his sleep and then turned over on his side... [V with quote] My head, my head, he moaned. I can t see. Syn …   English dictionary

• moan — {{11}}moan (n.) c.1200, lamentation, mourning, weeping; complaining, the expressing of complaints; a complaint; lover s complaint; accusation, charge, probably from an unrecorded O.E. *man complaint, related to O.E. mænan complain, moan, also… …   Etymology dictionary

• moan — [[t]moʊn[/t]] n. 1) a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from physical or mental suffering 2) any similar sound: the moan of the wind[/ex] 3) a complaint or lamentation 4) to utter moans, as of pain or grief 5) (of the wind, sea, trees,… …   From formal English to slang

• moan — I. noun Etymology: Middle English mone, from Old English *mān Date: 13th century 1. lamentation, complaint 2. a low prolonged sound of pain or of grief II. verb Date: 14th century transitive verb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Words with the same pronunciation — There are many words in English that are pronounced the same but spelled differently. The following pairs of words are explained at separate entries in this book because they are often confused: bass base, bear bare, born borne, break brake,… …   Useful english dictionary

• words with the same pronunciation — There are many words in English that are pronounced the same but spelled differently. The following pairs of words are explained at separate entries in this book because they are often confused: bass base, bear bare, born borne, break brake,… …   Useful english dictionary