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
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 ! ..."