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1. Move with a whining sound
   "The bullets were whining past us"
    
2. Talk in a tearful manner
   - snivel
    
3. Make a high-pitched, screeching noise
   "My car engine makes a whining noise";
   - squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreak [non-standard]
    
4. Complain whiningly
   - grizzle, yammer, yawp

1. A complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way
   - whimper

Sounds like: Whigs, whin

Derived forms: whining, whined, whines

Type of: complain, complaint, go, kick, kvetch [N. Amer], locomote, make noise, moan, mouth, move, noise, plain [archaic], quetch, resound, sound off, speak, talk, travel, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize

Encyclopedia: Whine