0 present participle of groan --
1 to make a deep, long sound showing great pain or unhappiness: --
She's always moaning and groaning (= complaining a lot) about the weather.
[ + speech ] "Not again," he groaned (= said in a low unhappy voice).
My noble friend says the ratepayer is groaning under the burden.
We have inherited a system groaning under the burden of bureaucracy and inefficiency, and we are determined to get people off benefit and into work.
They have said, first, that industry has been groaning under a burden of taxation.
There has been moaning and groaning, but people have carried on.
They, together with the teachers, civil servants and gas workers, who have all been groaning under the burden, are sent empty away.
The whole country is groaning under a burden of taxation so heavy that it is materially diminishing our chance of recovery.
It is the people who are moaning and groaning here this afternoon.
Private enterprise at the present time is groaning under the burdens of taxation.
