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Groan meaning
A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief. | A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration, disapproval, or ecstasy. | A low creaking sound from applied pressure or weight.
Example sentences (20)
But when I've tried to repeat the joke in the pub, people just groan and roll their eyes.
Don’t moan and groan, you can soon be wrapped in this ultra-soft UGG blanket.
Do you hear the people groan?
Initially sold as a prequel to Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(and the movie adaptations), this seemed an unneeded origin story in the vein of such groan-worthy affairs as Oz the Great and Powerful, X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Instead of STANDING UP and doing something about it the preference has been to just simply moan and groan.
It doesn't last long, but it will make everyone in the vehicle groan at the same time.
It's awful,' she says with something between a giggle and a groan, not quite the merry widow yet.
My friends in the student section, clad in all black to show support for the Black players on behalf of the Black Students Union (BSU), groan.
The result, usually, is part guffaw, part groan – but total pleasure.
Trevor Noah had some groan-inducing moments as the Grammys host.
We groan when liberal Jews ignore the way Illiberal Liberals, feminists, and gay activists keep betraying them.
Also, another business owner Chief Maduako Theodore also lamented and groan under the deplorable conditions of the road without an end in sight to the nightmare.
We do, we imagine everything, the dipping, the groan and moan, and even the smile of satisfaction thereafter.
Wherever people groan, wherever creation groans, there the community of the Gospel is meant to be with our ministry of solidarity, liberation and empowerment.
A loud, creaking groan sounded out across the valley, all around us, the sound I imagined a whale would make before dying.
Also, did you laugh or groan when Ne-Yo suggested that Madison Penney needed to have her heart broken in order to dance better?
Good guys, bad guys—they bleed, groan and die equally.
In August storms, those dark, gnarled limbs, furred with resurrection fern, groan and lumber against the wind and rain like that Western buffalo’s slow, heavy, purposeful motion, head resolutely down, burly black shoulders rippling with strength.
Someone puts it on, and we all collectively groan.
With its hands already more than full the world has greeted the news of a new 17-minute Bob Dylan song, Murder Most Foul, with a collective groan quickly followed by anger bordering on incandescent rage.