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Whimpering

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The sound of one who whimpers; a whimper; a feeble complaint.

    "And my sea-birds made a great confusion in the awful calm, filling it with flashing pinions and plaintive whimperings, and settling into the shape of a dome all formed of beating wings, in which I on my ship and the tridentiferous god of the sea were enclosed, face to face."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of whimper form-of, gerund, participle, present

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