Definition of "moan"

moan

/məʊn/

noun
plural moans
1. a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
verb
third-person singular simple present moans, present participle moaning, simple past and past participle moaned
1. (transitive, now rare) To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.
  Quotations
  Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
  1708, Matthew Prior, the Turtle and the Sparrow
2. (intransitive, now chiefly poetic) To grieve.
3. (intransitive) To make a moan or similar sound.
  Quotations
  They shared a common dread that he would begin moaning.
  1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, page 169
4. (transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
5. (intransitive, colloquial) To complain; to grumble.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden.
  Quotations
  which infinitely moans me
  1626 February 1 (licensing date), John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, Act V, scene i