groaned

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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