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Adjective whining has 2 senses
- whining - long and high-pitched like a whine or plaintive crying
Antonym: quiet (indirect, via noisy)
- fretful, querulous, whiney, whining, whiny - habitually complaining; "a whining child"
Antonym: uncomplaining (indirect, via complaining)
Verb whine has 3 senses
- whine - move with a whining sound; "The bullets were whining past us"
--1 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
- snivel, whine - talk in a tearful manner
--2 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue whine
- whine, grizzle, yammer, yawp - complain whiningly
--3 is one way to complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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