WHINE


Meaning of WHINE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a dog whines (= makes a long high sound because it is unhappy or in pain )

I could hear the dogs whining outside the door.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

about

She ignores me, whining about how he was supposed to meet her at the Bullet's Head.

Stop whining about not having enough free time.

No whining about how tough it will be to start over, no self-congratulatory odes to her own courage.

Paying 28 percent on capital-gains income is hardly a burden to whine about .

■ VERB

stop

At the sound of my voice they stopped whining so I didn't know where to look.

What surprised her was that they stopped whining at once.

Sometime that year he stopped whining .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

"What did you do that for?" he whined.

For heaven's sake stop whining. Nobody has touched your precious records.

He's always whining about how much everything costs.

Stop whining, or you won't get any candy.

The dog's whining for food.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And that part of my mind seemed to whine faintly and go very cold and still.

Gas pedal to the floor, we backed up with the engine whining and the chassis shaking.

He did the same, now making occasional soft whining grunts.

She was whining to him about how Eyas Securities had played this awful trick on her, how embarrassing it all was.

The only human notes in the dull and humorless whining are cigarette references.

The van sped into the Marble Arch roundabout with tyres whining.

We get together, start whining, and then we go on strike.

You're ugly enough without starting to whine .

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