bemoaning

English

Verb

bemoaning

1. present participle and gerund of bemoan

Noun

bemoaning (plural bemoanings)

1. A moaning or lamentation that is loudly expressed.
   • 1829, Baptist Magazine and Literary Review, volume 21, page 431:

     You may be well assured, that these distressing bemoanings were met with every soothing expression which the deepest interest, so strongly excited, could suggest.