LekhoriLekhoriThat groans.
Heavily laden, as if to creak under the strain.
We sat down to a groaning table and feasted all evening.
A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil.
From the nearby rail yards came clangings, groanings, chuggings.
Ellipsis of groaning time (“childbirth, labour”).
present participle and gerund of groan
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, prese...
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