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grane

grane is the obsolete form of groan.

grane is the obsolete spelling of grain.

Meaning of groan

Verb

groan (third-person singular simple present groans, present participle groaning, simple past and past participle groaned)

  1. To make a groan.
    • We groaned at his awful jokes.
  2. (figuratively) To seemingly creak under the strain of being heavily laden.
    • That night the table in the outer dining room was just groaning with good things.1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 14, column 1
  3. (obsolete) To strive after earnestly, as if with groans.
    • Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, / Or that which groaneth to be so.[1633], George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar], The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis...

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Meaning of grain

Noun

grain (countable and uncountable, plural grains)

  1. (uncountable) The harvested seeds of various grass food crops, especially wheat, maize, rye, barley, and rice.
    • Near-synonym: corn (broad sense, maize and others)
    Synonyms:
    cereal, corn
  2. (uncountable) Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
    • Near-synonym: corn (broad sense, maize and others)
    Synonyms:
    corn
  3. (countable) A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.
    • a grain of wheat
    Synonyms:
    corn
  4. The crops from which grain is harvested.
    • The fields were planted with grain.
  5. (uncountable) A linear texture of a material or surface.
    • Cut along the grain of the wood.
  6. (countable) A single particle of a substance.
    • a grain of sand

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Forms of grane

Verb
third-person singular presentgranes
present participlegraning
past participlegraned
pastgraned
Noun
pluralgranes

Questions about grane

What is grane the obsolete form of?
Grane is the obsolete form of groan.

Words near grane in the dictionary

  1. grandweans
  2. grandy
  3. grandyoungin
  4. grandyoungins
  5. Grandys
  6. grane
  7. graned
  8. Granelli
  9. Graner
  10. Graneros
  11. Graners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grane (page history and authors); groan (page history and authors); grain (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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