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moaning

/mohn/US // moʊn //UK // (məʊn) //

呻吟声,呻吟声声,呻吟的声音,呻吟声响起

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a prolonged, low, inarticulate sound uttered from or as if from physical or mental suffering.
    • : any similar sound: the moan of the wind.
    • : complaint or lamentation.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to utter moans, as of pain or grief.
    • : to make any sound suggestive of such moans: The wind moaned through the trees.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to utter inarticulately or pitifully, as if in lamentation: He moaned his response.
    • : to lament or bemoan: to moan one's fate.

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Examples

  • Dimly-lit bars brim with life, though an uncomfortably loud, orgasmic moan — originating from a television ad nearby — may interrupt your experience.

  • “Keep me coming, keep me going, keep me humming, keep me moaning,” she pleads in the chorus.

  • I saw the cops beat a few of them; one guy was badly stomped and lay on the ground moaning for a while.

  • Patients and employees were dazed, crying, and moaning, he said.

  • And before he went over to talk to them, he came over to my office, and he was moaning and groaning.

  • And then, inexplicably, the whole thing turns sexual when Newton-John begins moaning, “I like it,” toward the end.

  • Alessandro's face haunted him, and also the memory of Ramona's, as she lay tossing and moaning in the wretched Cahuilla hovel.

  • The wind, too, was rising, and I heard the trees moaning overhead and the waves breaking with increasing clamour on the shore.

  • I found her just now sobbing and moaning over Eddie, wishing they were both dead, and all the rest of it.

  • Finding this of no avail, he came to the door of the tent, moaning sadly, and by his gestures seeming to beg for the dead body.

  • Men talked in whispers, save as here and there they passed one lying wounded and moaning.