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[ verb ] indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure
Examples "The students groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets" "The ancient door soughed when opened" Used in print (Brett Halliday, The Careless Corpse....)Timothy_Rourke groaned dismally as he slid under the wheel . (Ann Ritner, Seize a Nettle....)They lived mainly in the kitchen ; they moved Maggie 's bed and the baby 's basket there , and the rest of them undressed by the stove and ran groaning and shivering to the upper polar regions and plunged into icy beds . |
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