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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The expression of regret, sorrow, or dissatisfaction; a murmuring; a complaint.
  • Expressing or expressive of complaint; lamenting; murmuring: as, to speak in a complaining tone.
  • In the habit of making complaint; fretful; querulous: as, a complaining child.
  • Sick; ill; poorly: as, he is complaining.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective prenominal uttering complaints. Opposite of uncomplaining.

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  • verb Present participle of complain.

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  • adjective expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment

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