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verb

Complain v. t. To lament; to bewail. (Obs.) "They might the grievance inwardly complain." "By chaste Lucrece's soul that late complain'd Her wrongs to us."

Complain v. i. (past & past part. complained; pres. part. complaining)

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. "O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!"

To make a formal accusation; to make a charge. "Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?"

Synonyms: To repine; grumble; deplore; bewail; grieve; mourn; regret; murmur.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Complain" Quotes from Famous Books

... this comedy are we to have?' said he. 'As I give you my bed, what have you to complain of? You need not pay any attention to me. I shall ...

— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola

... it seems odd that such a writer should not be appreciated in a flash; but upon this point there is evidently a real difference of opinion, and it constitutes for me the strangest difficulty of the subject. I hear many people complain that Bernard Shaw deliberately mystifies them. I cannot imagine what they mean; it seems to me that he deliberately insults them. His language, especially on moral questions, is generally as straight and solid as that of a bargee and far less ornate and ...

— George Bernard Shaw • Gilbert K. Chesterton

... no right to complain of the fault in a husband which she condoned in a lover. And a man has no right to complain of the fault in a wife he condoned in a sweetheart. Yet both may strive ...

— A Woman of the World - Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory, which is not impaired to any great degree; and if I lose not more of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject; to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose. I have so long studied and practised both, that they ...

— English literary criticism • Various

... our town known as "Arkansaw," where her term of service is still remembered as the "reign of terror." It was said of her then that she could whip any man in the ward—and would do it if he gave her a chance. The same manner which made the neighbors complain that Julia Neal carried her head too high, later in life, when she had money to back it, gave her what the women of the State Federation called a "regal air." In her early thirties she married Ezra Worthington, bachelor, twenty years ...

— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various

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