0 present 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.
Groaning and screaming throughout the sessions, he was neither willing nor able to verbalize the terror that seized him.
They are now most remarkable for their weight, only the groaning shelves testify to their existence, and thus they can begin to be thought of as something other than literature.
Such was the groaning and creaking.
