Squeal vs Moan - What's the difference?
squeal | moan |
To scream by making a shrill, prolonged sound.
To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
* Prior
(obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To make a moan or similar sound.
To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
(colloquial) To complain; to grumble.
As nouns the difference between squeal and moan
is that squeal is a high-pitched sound, as a scream of a child, or noisy worn-down brake pads while moan is a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.As verbs the difference between squeal and moan
is that squeal is to scream by making a shrill, prolonged sound while moan is to complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.squeal
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* squealerAnagrams
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(en verb)- Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
- Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
- which infinitely moans me
- ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned .