0 past simple and past participle of groan
1 to make a deep, long sound showing great pain or unhappiness:
[ + speech ] "Not again," he groaned (= said in a low unhappy voice).
She's always moaning and groaning (= complaining a lot) about the weather.
He groaned with pain before losing consciousness.
He groaned at the sight of all the dirty dishes piled everywhere.
When the computer crashed again, he groaned with frustration.
"I'm fed up with you moaning and groaning all the time!," she shouted.
The crash victim groaned as they lifted her gently onto a stretcher.
The machinery might well have creaked and groaned, but printers and authors could still have felt intimidated by its operation.
They also argued that the country groaned under too much bureaucracy and that therefore individual freedom and creativity were being suppressed.
In the midst of that, a patient in bed groaned and turned distinctly green.
