Definition of Groaning

1. Adjective. That groans. ¹

2. Adjective. (figuratively) That is heavily laden. ¹

3. Noun. A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil. ¹

4. Noun. Making groans. ¹

5. Verb. (present participle of groan) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Groaning

1. groan [v] - See also: groan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Groaning

grizzling
grizzly
grizzly bear
grizzly bears
grlzzly
gro
groEL
groan
groane
groaned
groaner
groaners
groanes
groaneth
groanful
groaning (current term)
groaningly
groanings
groans
groanworthy
groat
groats
grobian
grocer
grocer's
grocer's itch
grocerant
grocerants
groceraunt
groceraunts

Literary usage of Groaning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bagford Ballads: Illustrating The Last Years of the Stuarts by John Bagford, Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (1878)
"Of our " New Song, on the Strange and Wonderful groaning Board," another copy is preserved in the ... The literature of the groaning-Board is large. ..."

2. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"groaning CAKE AND CHEESE. AGAINST the time of the good wife's delivery, it has been everywhere the custom for the husband to provide a large cheese and a ..."

3. Sermons by Phillips Brooks (1896)
"Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it."—JOHN xi. 38. THE moment which this verse describes ..."

4. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"Their radiant journey run, forever set, Where, where, iu what abyss shall I be groaning ? [Exit. Why murmur at the common lot ? We part ! ..."

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