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Moaned

Moan \Moan\ (m[=o]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Moaned (m[=o]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Moaning.] [AS. m[=ae]nan to moan, also, to mean; but in the latter sense perh. a different word. Cf. Mean to intend.]

  1. To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.

    Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans.
    --Thomson.

    Let there bechance him pitiful mischances, To make him moan.
    --Shak.

  2. To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.

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moaned

vb. (en-past of: moan)

Usage examples of "moaned".

He grumbled, moaned, and muttered as he sat cross-legged to sketch and peer.

She said nothing, staring past him down the table, until Madame Flaubert moaned, sat up, and (as Ford by this time expected) said, ‘Oh!

Bwlch merely moaned as the salt beef was dangled in front of his face and gestured urgently to me to bring the bucket.

Darnell moaned again and reminded himself that the artificial gravity of space was practically like being on Earth.

They moaned in their agony, but they moved toward him, teeth bared in a rictus of pain and savagery.

His wife wailed and moaned that surely they would not be in time, that they would all fall in the water and drown, and then what would become of them?

Damia moaned silently as she struggled away from the dark and back towards the light.

They also dropped little clues to support the fiction that they were on an apprenticeship level: Morag moaned a bit at how hard it was to keep track of all the message tubes.

The two Deski who had been issued their knives moaned and cowered against the crates.

He moaned a little but didn't writhe in pain so she felt it was safe to continue with that treatment.

Lavel snorted and then moaned as the injudicious movement caused him pain.

Nadona had denied any knowledge of its whereabouts and moaned that he had left her without a mark to her name.

These he put on her feet, after chafing them until she moaned and tried to draw them away from him.

B'fol's dainty green beauty moaned and tossed her head, unable to bend one wing that had been threaded to bare cartilage.

Her hands clutched at his powerful shoulders and she moaned weakly, "Rhy.