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Synonyms for moan
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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. groan, moanverb

    an utterance expressing pain or disapproval

    Synonyms:
    groan, moan

  2. groan, moanverb

    indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure

    "The students groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets"; "The ancient door soughed when opened"

    Synonyms:
    groan, moan

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Dictionary of English Synonymes5.0 / 2 votes

  1. moanverb

    Synonyms:
    [Poetical.] lament, deplore, mourn, bemoan, weep for, grieve for

  2. moanverb

    Synonyms:
    grieve, mourn, make lamentation

PPDB, the paraphrase database3.0 / 2 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "moan":

    complain

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How to use moan in a sentence?

  1. Jean Anouilh:

    It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

  2. Daniel Irwin:

    Last time I saw him, he was lying on the floor making a sustained monotone moan.

  3. Christina G. Rossetti:

    In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

  4. S. J. Perelman:

    Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  5. Lewis Lapham:

    We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.


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