intransitive verb. To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.

intransitive verb. To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge; file a complaint.

noun. Complaint; outcry.

To utter expressions of grief, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or dissatisfaction; lament or murmur about anything; find fault.

Figuratively, to make a sound resembling that of lamentation or suffering; emit a mournful sound or noise: as, the complaining wind; the sea complains dismally.

To utter an expression of discomfort or sorrow from some cause; speak of the suffering of anything: with of: as, to complain of headache, of poverty, or of wrong.

To make a formal accusation against a person, or on account of anything; make a charge: with of.

Synonyms To bewail, repine, grieve, mourn, grumble, croak.

To lament; bewail; deplore.

transitive verb. To lament; to bewail.

intransitive verb. To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

intransitive verb. To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.

verb. To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.

verb. To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.

verb. express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

verb. make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge

"III. ii.31 (278,2) [complain of good breeding] I am in doubt whether the custom of the language in Shakespeare's time did not authorise this mode of speech, and make _complain of good breeding_ the same with _complain_ of the want of _good_ breeding."

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