Meaning

(transitive) To moan or complain about (something)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To moan or complain about (something).
2. (transitive, reflexive) To be dismayed or worried about (someone), particularly because of their situation or what has happened to them.

Example Sentences

He bemoaned the drought but went on watering his lawn.

The losse of this erle was greatly bemoned by men of al degrees, for he was liberal, gentle, humble, and curteous to eche one […]

[…] after deliberately marrying General Shaw with no warmer feeling than respect for his character and establishment, [she] was constantly, though quietly, bemoaning her hard lot in being united to one whom she could not love.

“I am sure you are better off without Mr. Hogg,” Helena would say often when Georgina bemoaned her husband’s desertion.

"Directoritis strikes again!" bemoans Dan Sullivan, who believes that the director of Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon replaces the characters' intellectual and verbal energy with "transparent rationalizations for the personal hang-ups of the characters […]

He’d have told that horrible sister of his that more coloureds had just turned up. How many is it now? they’d have said to each other. Fifty? Sixty? ‘You’ll have to speak to her, Cyril,’ she’d have told him, before bemoaning how respectable this street was before they came.

Son. Was ever son so rued a father’s death? Father. Was ever father so bemoan’d his son?

Sure you take mee not to be made of flesh, or if so, yet not to be sensible that thinke me able to beare these burthens without bemoning my selfe.

Word Forms

• bemoans
• bemoaning
• bemoaned

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Use bemoan when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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