Definitions for groan

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Spelling: [grohn]

IPA: /groʊn/

Groan is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in groan (agnor).

Definitions for groan

noun

1. a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief:
2. a deep, inarticulate sound uttered in derision, disapproval, desire, etc.
3. a deep grating or creaking sound due to a sudden or continued overburdening, as with a great weight:

verb (used with object)

1. to utter or express with groans.

verb (used without object)

1. to utter a deep, mournful sound expressive of pain or grief.
2. to make a deep, inarticulate sound expressive of derision, disapproval, desire, etc.
3. to make a sound resembling a groan; resound harshly:
4. to be overburdened or overloaded.
5. to suffer greatly or lamentably:

Origin of groan

before 900; Middle English gronen, Old English grānian; cognate with German greinen to whine

Examples for groan

I've been going by this billboard almost daily for the best part of a month, and it still makes me laugh, and groan.

Copper mining is the most toxic form of metal mining in the United States, but you can only moan and groan about it so much.

I was resolved that I would not be subdued, and that the world should not hear me groan.

When Joggi got thus far in his story, he began to cry and groan, and would not be pacified.

I flung it upon the floor with a curse and threw myself back on my bed with a groan.

Sure, if Romney finishes below 40 percent the media will moan and groan that he failed to meet expectations.

When we hear a groan in the audience we know we did something right, because they get it.

A groan of distress burst from him, and he fled the place in ignominious rout.

Immediately following the groan of disappointment, a conspiracy of silence began.

He was afraid to open his lips lest a groan should escape him.