adj
Meaning 1
That groans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
groaning
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈɡɹoʊnɪŋ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹəʊnɪŋ/
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rhymes with (General American) -oʊnɪŋ
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rhymes with (Received Pronunciation) -əʊnɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: G R OW1 N IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Heavily laden, as if to creak under the strain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, not-comparable
Examples
- We sat down to a groaning table and feasted all evening.
Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 3
A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
Ellipsis of groaning time (“childbirth, labour”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 5
present participle and gerund of groan
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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History
Etymology
From Middle English gronynge (“groaning”), from Old English grānung; equivalent to groan + -ing. Conflated with Middle English gronende, present participle of gronen, from Old English grāniende, present participle of grānian (“to groan”). Analyzable as groan + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: valittava — Translations
- German: ächzend — Translations
- German: stöhnend — Translations
- Spanish: gemidor — Translations
- Spanish: gemebundo — Translations
- Turkish: inleyerek — Translations
- Turkish: sızlanarak — Translations
- Finnish: urina — sound
- Finnish: voihkaisu — sound
- Finnish: ähkinä — sound
- Finnish: ähke — sound
- Finnish: ähkintä — sound
- Finnish: ähkyntä — sound
- German: Ächzen — sound
- German: Geächze — sound
- German: Gestöhn — sound
- German: Gestöhne — sound
- German: Stöhnen — sound
- Ancient Greek: μυχμός (mukhmós) — sound
- Irish: ochlán — sound
- Turkish: feryat — sound
- Turkish: inlemek — sound
- Turkish: sızlanmak — sound