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1. Indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure
   "The students moaned when the professor got out the exam booklets";
   - groan
    
2. Show one's unhappiness or critical attitude
   "We moaned about the increased work load";
   - grouch, grumble, scold
    
3. Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
   "My mother moans all day";
   - complain, kick, plain [archaic], sound off, quetch, kvetch [N. Amer]

1. An utterance expressing pain or disapproval
   - groan

Sounds like: missiles, missmoan

Derived forms: moaned, moans, moaning

Type of: emit, let loose, let out, utter, utterance, vocalization

Encyclopedia: Moan