groan
verb /ɡrəʊn/
/ɡrəʊn/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they groan | /ɡrəʊn/ /ɡrəʊn/ |
| he / she / it groans | /ɡrəʊnz/ /ɡrəʊnz/ |
| past simple groaned | /ɡrəʊnd/ /ɡrəʊnd/ |
| past participle groaned | /ɡrəʊnd/ /ɡrəʊnd/ |
| -ing form groaning | /ˈɡrəʊnɪŋ/ /ˈɡrəʊnɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to make a long deep sound because you are annoyed, upset or in pain, or with pleasure synonym moan
- He lay on the floor groaning.
- groan with something to groan with pain/pleasure
- groan at something We all groaned at his terrible jokes.
- + speech ‘It's a complete mess!’ she groaned.
- ‘Don’t move me,’ he groaned.
Homophones groan | growngroan grown/ɡrəʊn//ɡrəʊn/- groan verb
- The awful jokes made us all groan.
- groan noun
- He let out a groan of pain.
- grown (past participle of grow)
- The business has grown hugely in the last ten years.
- grown adjective
- Although he's a grown man, he'll always be our little boy.
Extra Examples- He groaned at the pain.
- Some of the patients were groaning with pain.
- He groaned inwardly at the thought of spending another day in that place.
- She groaned out loud in protest.
- There's no point in moaning and groaning about not having any money.
- She tried to get up and groaned with pain.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- loudly
- quietly
- softly
- …
- in
- with
- at
- …
- moan and groan
- [intransitive, transitive] to complain about something, especially in an annoying way synonym grumble (1)
- groan about something They were all moaning and groaning about the amount of work they had.
- + speech ‘It's not fair!’ she groaned.
- [intransitive] to make a sound like a person groaning synonym moan
- The trees creaked and groaned in the wind.
Word OriginOld English grānian, of Germanic origin; related to German greinen ‘grizzle, whine’, grinsen ‘grin’, also probably to grin.
Idioms
groan under the weight of something
- (formal) used to say that there is too much of something
- The table groaned under the weight of the biggest buffet they had ever seen.