Antonyms for whine
ʰwaɪn, waɪnwhine

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1. • Make Noise
   • Move
   • Talk

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1. whimper, whineverb

   a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way

   Synonyms:
   whimper

2. whineverb

   move with a whining sound

   "The bullets were whining past us"

   Synonyms:
   yawp, skreak, snivel, creak, yammer, screech, squeak, grizzle, screak

3. snivel, whineverb

   talk in a tearful manner

   Synonyms:
   grizzle, yawp, sniffle, skreak, snivel, creak, squeak, screech, blubber, screak, yammer, blub, snuffle

4. whine, squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreakverb

   make a high-pitched, screeching noise

   "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining noise"

   Synonyms:
   yawp, skreak, snivel, squawk, creak, yammer, screech, squeak, grizzle, screak, skreigh

5. whine, grizzle, yammer, yawpverb

   complain whiningly

   Synonyms:
   stew, howl, yawp, skreak, snivel, yowl, creak, yammer, bawl, screech, brood, squeak, grizzle, wrawl, screak

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1. whinenoun

   Synonyms:
   whimper, puling, complaint

2. whineverb

   Synonyms:
   whimper, pule, complain

How to use whine in a sentence?

1. Lowman Henry:

   All we've noticed is a bunch of whining about it, our response is : They whine, we win.

2. Van Vleuten:

   My goal today was to be my best self ever and I succeeded. I mean, we can whine about the miscommunication for a long time, but I could have won gold here in this form. I did very well, yeah, I ’m really proud of it. I mean, it’s a silver medal, but it does have a bit of a shine to it. And it’s also my first medal, is n’t it ? I do have an Olympic medal. A lot of people would kill for that.

3. Joan Didion:

   When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

4. AiR Atman in Ravi:

   You can be happy all the time, If you learn to smile and not whine, Not jumping from the future to the past, Be in the NOW and make happiness last.

5. James Abbott McNeill Whistler:

   Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the ameteur for three, or the cry of the critc for five. (from Whistler vs. Ruskin, 1878)

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