moaning
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]moaning
- present participle and gerund of moan
Noun
[edit]moaning (plural moanings)
- The utterance of a moan.
- the moanings of the wounded men
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXV, page 54:
- But I should turn mine ears and hear
The moanings of the homeless sea,
The sound of streams that swift or slow
Draw down Æonian hills, and sow
The dust of continents to be; […]