Don't just whine, do something!
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Whine
//waɪn//
Synonyms for "whine" (130 found)
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5 entriesTranslations
149 translations across 33 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- μινυρίζω verb (to utter a whine)
- μινυρίζω verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
Bulgarian
4 entries- вой noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- вия verb (to utter a whine)
- скимтя verb (to make a sound resembling such a cry)
- хленча verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
Catalan
2 entries- gemec noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- udol noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
Czech
4 entries- kňourat verb (to utter a whine)
- kňučet verb (to utter a whine)
- naříkat (si) verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
- skučet verb (to utter a whine)
Danish
2 entries- hvin noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- hvine verb (to utter a whine)
Dutch
4 entries- huilen noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- jammeren noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- zeuren noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- zeuren verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
Esperanto
2 entries- plor'grinco noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- kritikaĉi verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
Finnish
4 entries- ulvonta noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- kitistä verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
- uikuttaa verb (to utter a whine)
- ujeltaa verb (to make a sound resembling such a cry)
French
4 entries- geignement noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- pleurnicherie noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- couiner verb (to utter a whine)
- geindre verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
Galician
4 entries- choromicada noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- choricar verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
- choromicar verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
- ganir verb (to utter a whine)
German
4 entries- Gejammer noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- Heulen noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- Jammern noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- Jaulen noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
Hungarian
2 entries- siránkozik verb (to utter a whine)
- vinnyog verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
Indonesian
4 entries- rengekan noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- berderu verb (to make a sound resembling such a cry)
- menderu verb (to make a sound resembling such a cry)
- merengek verb (to utter a whine)
Ingrian
3 entries- irissä verb (to utter a whine)
- kitissä verb (to utter a whine)
- pikissä verb (to utter a whine)
Irish
1 entries- cuach noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
Italian
4 entries- frigno noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- lagna noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- piagnisteo noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- piagnucolio noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
Jamaican Creole
1 entries- nenge nenge verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
Ligurian
1 entries- fà u sapìn noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
Lithuanian
1 entries- verkšlenti verb (to utter a whine)
Māori
4 entries- ngengere noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- koroingoingo verb (to make a sound resembling such a cry)
- kōingoingo verb (to make a sound resembling such a cry)
- ngengere verb (to utter a whine)
Norman
2 entries- braithe verb (to utter a whine)
- houinner verb (to utter a whine)
Norwegian
4 entries- hvin noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- hyl noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- hvine verb (to utter a whine)
- hyle verb (to utter a whine)
Persian
4 entries- فغان noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- ناله noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- نالیدن verb (to utter a whine)
- نق زدن verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
Polish
3 entries- marudzić verb (to utter a whine)
- marudzić verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
- pomarudzić verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
Portuguese
4 entries- ganido noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- ganir verb (to utter a whine)
- ganir verb (to make a sound resembling such a cry)
- lamuriar verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
Romanian
4 entries- tânguire noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- văietare noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- văitare noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- jelui verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
Russian
4 entries- вой noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- ~ с воем verb (to move with a whining sound)
- взвывать verb (to utter a whine)
- выть verb (to utter a whine)
Slovak
2 entries- kvílenie noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- kvíliť verb (to utter a whine)
Spanish
4 entries- gimoteo noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- lloriqueo noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- gemir verb (to make a sound resembling such a cry)
- gimotear verb (to utter a whine)
Swedish
1 entries- gnälla noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
Tamil
4 entries- சிணுங்கல் noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- சிணுங்கு verb (to utter a whine)
- மூக்காலழு verb (to utter a whine)
- மூக்காலழு verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
Turkish
4 entries- inilti noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- inleme noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- inleyiş noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- sızlanma noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
Vietnamese
3 entries- thở dài noun (long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound)
- rên rỉ verb (to utter a whine)
- than vãn verb (to complain or protest with a whine or as if with a whine)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I'm offended by that." Well, so fucking what?
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"What will trigonometric functions ever do for me in the future?!" "If you have time to whine, why don't get your housework done quickly instead?!"
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You sure do whine a lot.
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