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What does complain mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word complain? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
  2. (intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
  3. To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
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Academics inveterately complain of how little we know, and this book offers some redress.
If you believe you have been misled complain to the company or person who sold you the plan in the first place.
Officers at the prison murdered him because he dared to complain about the inhuman conditions and the poor quality of food.
I didn't complain about my Health and Fitness class, even though Mrs. Zeller made all of us run fifteen laps around the gym.
Premiership footballers complain of fatigue as early as October with their crammed fixture lists.
Yet, today, even corporators in the BCC Council complain that nothing is being done, that there are more potholes than ever before.

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