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moan

noun as in groan, complaint

verb as in groan, complain

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I can understand why he did that, it's common sense, but I don't see many managers now moaning about it - even the ones who want to play in a different way to me.

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He’s hacked how to make a disembodied head moan in agony.

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He’s closer to the verbal creature in Shelley’s novel than the moaning depictions on-screen.

And that their persecution from the beyond was going to be more severe than mere moaning in the halls or chains rattling in the attic.

Navalny was brought back to his cell, his wife said, where he lay down on the ground, pulled his legs up to his stomach and began to moan from pain.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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