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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To voice a deep, inarticulate sound, as of pain, grief, or displeasure.
  2. v. To make a sound expressive of stress or strain: floorboards groaning.
  3. v. To utter or express with groans or a groan.
  4. n. The sound made in groaning.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To breathe with a deep murmuring sound expressive of grief or pain; utter a deep, low-toned, moaning sound: often used figuratively.
  2. To long or strive with deep earnestness, and as if with groans.
  3. To express disapproval of or to silence by means of groans: usually with down: as, the speaker was groaned down.
  4. n. A low, deep, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief; figuratively, any natural sound resembling this, and having a mournful or dismal effect.
  5. n. A deep murmuring sound uttered in derision or disapprobation: opposed to cheer or applause.
  6. n. The noise made by a buck at rutting-time.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief.
  2. n. A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration or disapproval.
  3. v. To make a groan.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan.
  2. v. To strive after earnestly, as with groans.
  3. v. To affect by groans.
  4. n. A low, moaning sound; usually, a deep, mournful sound uttered in pain or great distress; sometimes, an expression of strong disapprobation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an utterance expressing pain or disapproval
  2. v. indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure

Etymologies

  1. Middle English gronen, from Old English grānian. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Now he has followed it up with (groan) a sequel, _Maelstrom_; _groan_ because the commercial strategy of tying the two books together has necessitated weighing down virtually the first third of what could have just as well been a free-standing novel with a detailed recapitulation of the events of _Starfish_ and their relation to the surface world that almost had me giving up on the book.”

    Asimov's Science Fiction

  • “Let's go Phil!" was the Monday chant, and when the news broke at No. 18 that Glover had retaken the lead, there was the kind of New York groan from the stands that you would expect to hear on a Red Sox homer.”

    Mickelson unable to deliver U.S. Open title as gift to wife

  • “The widespread groan is that Liberals and the ANGRY LEFT want to give your money to fat lazy people and their ungrateful children.”

    duh pookie

  • “Every groan from the fiend, every contortion of his body was cheered by the thickly packed crowd of 10,000 persons.”

    Boing Boing

  • “When the four captains walked out of the locker room still in red, there was a bit of a groan from the crowd.”

    USATODAY.com - College Football - Auburn vs. Georgia

  • “Wagner, the hard-throwing lefty who saved three of New York's first four playoff games, served up a 3-2 pitch to Taguchi that he smacked over the left-field fence leading off the ninth — eliciting a groan from the crowd of 56,349.”

    Vaunted Mets bullpen stumbles

  • “Sacramento worked the ball to Peja Stojakovic in the left corner, but his 3-point shot was way long and way right an airball that brought a collective groan from the crowd.”

    USATODAY.com - L.A. survives OT in Game 7 to keep Kings off throne

  • “He heard footsteps approaching, and drove his spurs so fiercely into the roan as to force a surprised groan from the animal as it leaped forward.”

    War

  • “Felicity and Cecily were setting out a lunch in the pantry when we were all startled by a loud groan from the sofa.”

    The Story Girl

  • ““Oh, he says it wasn’t his wife,” Mr. Obama said, eliciting a big groan from the audience.”

    What Would Miss Manners Say? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. moan

hypernyms (6)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. utterance
  1. vocalization
  1. emit
  1. let out
  1. let loose
  1. utter

same context (18)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. gasp
  2. grunt
  3. howl
  1. growl
  2. scream
  3. sob
  1. squeal
  2. rumble
  3. thud
  1. chuckle
  2. hiss
  3. whimper
  1. murmur
  2. creak
  3. bellow
  1. croak
  2. grimace
  3. whistle

rhymes (89)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bastogne
  2. Bayonne
  3. Capone
  4. Cohn
  5. Cologne
  6. Dijon
  7. Goan
  8. Joan
  9. Leone
  10. Malone
  11. Mon
  12. Perone
  13. Ramon
  14. Rhone
  15. Scone
  16. Sharon
  17. Simone
  1. Sloan
  2. Stone
  3. Tone
  4. Tyrone
  5. alone
  6. atone
  7. bemoan
  8. blown
  9. bone
  10. bourguignon
  11. bowne
  12. calderon
  13. carone
  14. clone
  15. cologne
  16. condone
  17. cone
  1. crone
  2. cyclone
  3. dethrone
  4. dijon
  5. disown
  6. drone
  7. flintstone
  8. flown
  9. fone
  10. goan
  11. goen
  12. grone
  13. grown
  14. hipbone
  15. homegrown
  16. hone
  17. intone
  1. known
  2. leone
  3. loan
  4. lone
  5. marone
  6. moan
  7. mon
  8. mone
  9. outgrown
  10. outshone
  11. overblown
  12. overgrown
  13. overthrown
  14. own
  15. pavone
  16. perone
  17. phone
  1. postpone
  2. prone
  3. raton
  4. reggaeton
  5. rhone
  6. roan
  7. rone
  8. scone
  9. sewn
  10. shone
  11. shown
  12. sown
  13. stone
  14. throne
  15. thrown
  16. tone
  17. trombone
  1. trone
  2. unbeknown
  3. unknown
  4. zone

reverse dictionary (19)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. gronte
  2. grain
  3. grane
  1. grone
  2. kelk
  3. groan
  1. grunt
  2. long-drawn
  3. gimcrack
  1. give
  2. heave
  3. undergroan
  1. moan
  2. swough
  3. chirk
  1. fetch
  2. gale
  3. involuntary
  1. suppress

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Words tagged ‘groan’

  1. aleutian
  1. king arthur

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