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Complain [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To utter expressions of grief; to lament.

2. I will complain in the bitterness of my spirit. Job 7:11 .

3. I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed. Psalms 77:3 .

4. To utter expressions of censure or resentment; to murmur; to find fault.

5. And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord. Numbers 11:1 .

6. To utter expressions of uneasiness, or pain. He complains of thirst. He complains of a head-ache.

7. To charge; to accuse of an offense; to present an accusation against a person to a proper officer.

8. To A B, one of the justices of the peace for the county of S, complains C D.

9. This verb is regularly followed by of, before the cause of grief or censure; as, to complain of thirst, of ignorance, of vice, of an offender.

10. To represent injuries, particularly in a writ of Audita Querela.

Complain [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To lament; to bewail.

2. They might the grievance inwardly complain

3. This use of complain is uncommon, and hardly legitimate. The phrase is properly elliptical.

Complain [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

2. To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.

Complain [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To lament; to bewail.

Complainable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That may be complained of.

Complainable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That may be complained of.

Complainant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A prosecutor; one who prosecutes by complaint, or commences a legal process against an offender for the recovery of a right or penalty.

2. He shall forfeit one moiety to the use of the town; and the other moiety to the use of the complainant

3. The plaintiff in a writ of Audita Querela.

Complainant [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who makes complaint.

2. One who commences a legal process by a complaint.

3. The party suing in equity, answering to the plaintiff at common law.

Complained [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Complain

Complainer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who complains, or expresses grief; one who laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer.

2. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts. Jude 1:16 .

Complainer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer.

Complainful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Full of complaint.

Complaining [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The expression of regret, sorrow, or injury.

Complaining [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Expressing grief, sorrow, or censure; finding fault; murmuring; lamenting; accusing of an offense.

Complaining [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Complain

Complaint [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; a finding fault.

2. Even to day is my complaint bitter. Job 23:2 .

3. The cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.

4. The poverty of the clergy hath been the complaint of all who wish well to the church.

5. The cause of complaint or of pain and uneasiness in the body; a malady; a disease; usually applied to disorders not violent; as a complaint in the bowels or breast.

6. Accusation; a charge against an offender, made by a private person or informer to a justice of the peace or other proper officer, alleging that the offender has violated the law, and claiming the penalty due to the prosecutor. It differs from an information, which is the prosecution of an offender by the Attorney or Solicitor General; and from a presentment and indictment, which are the accusation of a Grand Jury.

7. Representation of injuries, in a general sense; and appropriately, in a writ of Audita Querela.

Complaint [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Expression of grief, regret, pain, censure, or resentment; lamentation; murmuring; accusation; fault-finding.

2. Cause or subject of complaint or murmuring.

3. An ailment or disease of the body.

4. A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.

Complaintful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Full of complaint.

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Genesis 21:25

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

Numbers 11:1

And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 14:27

How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.

Judges 21:22

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”

1 Samuel 1:16

Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”

2 Kings 4:19

And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”

Nehemiah 5:6

And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry,

Job 7:11

Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 7:13

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

Job 9:27

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’

Job 10:1

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 21:4

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

Job 23:2

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Job 31:13

If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,

Job 31:38

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

Job 33:13

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

Psalms 55:2

Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught

Psalms 64:1

Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.

Psalms 77:3

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

Psalms 142:2

I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.