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77 lines
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{
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"moan":{
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"antonyms":[
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"groan",
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"wail"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a low prolonged sound of pain or of grief":[
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"a moan of distress"
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],
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": lament , complain":[],
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": lamentation , complaint":[
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"\u2026 made a great moan if he had to work \u2026",
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"\u2014 D. H. Lawrence"
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],
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": to bewail audibly : lament":[],
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": to emit a sound resembling a moan":[
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"the wind moaned in the trees"
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],
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": to make a moan : groan":[],
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": to utter with moans":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"She let out a long, deep moan .",
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"the moan of the wind",
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"the moan of the car's engine",
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"Verb",
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"The wounded soldier moaned in pain.",
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"He moaned with pleasure as she rubbed his back.",
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"We were all moaning about the cold, rainy weather.",
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"He's always moaning about his salary.",
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"The children were moaning and groaning all morning, but their mother would not let them go outside.",
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"I'm tired of all his moaning and groaning about his salary.",
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"\u201cBut I don't want to go,\u201d moaned the boy.",
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"The wind moaned in the trees.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Commenced with a fiddle introduction that evoked the long, slow moan of a steam-train whistle, the Zeppelin staple shook with Malian-leaning rhythms. \u2014 Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune , 8 June 2022",
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"Readers sent in their poems, The Times released a great moan , Making readers even more manic. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
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"Perhaps indie rock doesn\u2019t need another moan of 21st-century disaffection. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 28 May 2022",
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"The air grew heavy with anticipation and then, low and deep and melancholy as whale song, came the first moan of a ship\u2019s horn. \u2014 New York Times , 12 May 2022",
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"Check out the ghostly moan below: This content is imported from YouTube. \u2014 Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics , 6 May 2022",
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"The song is pulled together by \u2014 what else",
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"That's quieter than the regular CR-V's 78-decibel moan at full throttle. \u2014 Beth Nichols, Car and Driver , 26 Jan. 2022",
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"The famous black writer had built a reputation for pyrotechnic readings that sometimes included slideshows of brutalized slave bodies and sometimes involved moan -singing. \u2014 Longreads , 19 Jan. 2022",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
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"So King came to the camp and fell into its desultory rhythm marked by the white noise of daytime traffic below and moan of the fog horns at night. \u2014 Ruben Vivesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 26 May 2022",
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"In Europe, farmers used to moan about Ukraine\u2019s cheaper food imports coming into the market. \u2014 Aine Quinn, Bloomberg.com , 24 Apr. 2022",
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"As Jessie continues to moan , the notion of the show dealing with a pregnancy becomes not just possible, but probable. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 24 Mar. 2022",
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"But whereas Android phones would run out of puff quickly or occasionally moan about getting too hot, the 13 Pro just ticked along nicely. \u2014 Yoni Heisler, BGR , 15 Mar. 2022",
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"The pianist is instructed by Mr. Crumb to sing, shout and moan at various points in the series. \u2014 Vivien Schweitzer, New York Times , 6 Feb. 2022",
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"Fans who complained that announcers talked too much didn\u2019t moan about the deadpan Summerall. \u2014 Richard Sandomir, New York Times , 29 Dec. 2021",
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"The Astros broke up the no-hot bid in the eighth when pinch-hitter Aledmys Diaz hit a blooper that fell just in front of of left fielder Eddie Rosario, who got a late jump on the ball, causing the sellout crowd of 42,898 to moan . \u2014 Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY , 30 Oct. 2021",
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"At highway speeds, the slightest throttle provocation causes the CVT to lower the drive ratio, which in turn causes the revs to jump and the engine to moan . \u2014 Joe Lorio, Car and Driver , 22 Sep. 2021"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English mone , from Old English *m\u0101n":"Noun and Verb"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8m\u014dn"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"groan",
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"wail"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-173754",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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}
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} |