groan in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for groan in the English»French Dictionary (Go to French»English)

I.groan [Brit ɡrəʊn, Am ɡroʊn] N

II.groan [Brit ɡrəʊn, Am ɡroʊn] VB trans

III.groan [Brit ɡrəʊn, Am ɡroʊn] VB intr

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groan in the PONS Dictionary

groan Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

groan in pain
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Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
It was painful to hear them groaning and moaning.
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His name comes from the fact that he's always telling weak jokes which make people groan.
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The machine gives one last groan and shuts down.
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The artist sometimes smoked, sometimes groaned but remained silent almost all night long, dozing off from time to time.
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At other times he moaned and groaned and protested against the injustice with which he was being treated.
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The word may be ultimately derived from the verb groan, bewail.
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The lamenting text of the beginning (groaning and pitiful weeping) is stressed by intervals such as augmented second, diminished fifth and diminished seventh.
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After that, he had cheers instead of groans.
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Others will lose their freedom, groaning for years in prisons, purging their crimes with forced work in order to earn their daily bread...
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They are incapable of speech and can only communicate via groans and grunts and roars.
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