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Do some whining and whinging about
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bemoan
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Word definitions for bemoan in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To moan or complain about; be dismayed or worried about something.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN absence ▪ I get letters from single women bemoaning the absence of men; and from single men bemoaning the absence of women. lack ▪ He put the kettle on, bemoaning the lack of business. ▪ So it seems our old Antiquary ...
Usage examples of bemoan.
They were still confined to a tiny, circumscribed world of light and slippery surfaces, wondering what had happened to them but so surrounded by marvels that they had little time in which to bemoan possible fates.
Not that he had begun to condemn himself for his hardness to the woman who, whatever her fault, yet honored him by confessing it, or to bemoan her hard fate to whom a man had not been a hiding-place from the wind, a covert from the tempest of life, a shadow-shelter from the scorching of her own sin.
Titus goes on to bemoan the physical shortcomings of the Andronici, in the face of so huge an undertaking as the search for justice.
He cried that the hour of the great doom had come for all who bore within them the knowledge of any evil thing neither bemoaned before God nor confessed to man.
The article bemoaned the youth of today as largely rude and selfish, with little perseverance or inclination for hard work.
Marius among the ruins of Carthage, was waiting for the two lodgers that yet remained to her, and bemoaning her lot with the sympathetic Sylvie.
They had worked together for many years and were good friends, but when they started bouncing insults off each other, scoring points, bemoaning, arguing, philosophising and regaling anyone within earshot with anecdotes and opinions, nothing could be done.
I was pushed into a line with the other spirits, who were again bemoaning their fate in a low sob.
Ulla Safar would be distraught as he excused himself to Ritsem Caid and Redigal Conn, bemoaning his guard captains folly in trusting to youths who had concentrated all their energies on looking outwards, rather than into the fortress.
Brown-eyed Juliet Kei Fyne fought unruly red curls and bemoaned her smattering of freckles, and while she was shorter than her older sister, she was still of a nice height.
It is this which Hotspur bemoans, and he actually suggests damming the river in such a way as to make it flow east.
During World War II Brass Tackers bemoaned the loss of favorite writers to the war effort.
Ellie, newly an orphan, was leaning her head on a table, bemoaning her poverty and explaining to the audience all the prequel plot about being left the Matchless Mine.
Still, there seemed little point in belaboring her situation or bemoaning it either.
John Bull, however, has not yet awakened sufficiently to listen to his overtures, but sits up in bed, dolefully rubbing his eyes, and bemoaning the evanishment of his protectionist dream-- altogether realising tolerably, he and his land, Dr.