moan
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Is moan a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of moan?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A lament or sorrow.Examples: "to make one's moan"; "it shall be my daily grief and moan, that I am so dull, & do so little[…]But if when all is done that we can do, you will leave us nothing but our tears and moans for self-destroyers, the sin is yours, and the suffering shall be yours."; "to thee therefore oh Lord do I make my moan, to thee I render my humble petition, and pour out my soul which hath sinned against thee: Oh Lord, I beseech thee for thy infinite mercy in Jesus Christ, to take pity upon mee[…]"obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, chiefly UK) To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.Examples: "Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […]."; "1708, Matthew Prior, the Turtle and the Sparrow Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone."UKtransitive
2. (intransitive, now chiefly poetic) To grieve.Synonyms: lament, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, engrieve, erme, gloom, grieveintransitivepoetic
3. (intransitive) To make a moan or similar sound.Examples: "She moaned with pleasure and squirmed with delight from receiving oral sex."; "They shared a common dread that he would begin moaning."intransitive
4. (transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.Examples: "‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned."transitive
5. (intransitive, colloquial) To complain; to grumble.Synonyms: whine, beef, bellyache, bemoan, bitch, bleat, carp, chuntercolloquialintransitive
6. (transitive, obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden.Examples: "which infinitely moans me"Synonyms: deject, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, bring downobsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary