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groined

groined is the simple past and past participle of groin.

Meaning of groin

Verb (1)

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

  1. To deliver a blow to the genitals of.
    • In the scrum he somehow got groined.
  2. To build or furnish with a groin or groins.
    • The part of the village in which I resided was a grove of cocoa-nut trees, and at night, when the dead leaves were sometimes collected together and burnt, the effect was most magnificent - the tall stems, the fine crowns of foliage, and the immense fruit-clusters, being brilliantly illuminated...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 50
  3. (literary, transitive) To hollow out; to excavate.
    • Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.1918, Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting

Verb (2)

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

  1. To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
    • Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.

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Adjective

groined (not comparable)

  1. Built with groins.

Words formed from groined

Phrases with groined

Questions about groined

What does groined mean?
Groined means built with groins.
What is groined the simple past and past participle of?
Groined is the simple past and past participle of groin.
What part of speech is groined?
Groined is an adjective.

Words near groined in the dictionary

  1. groin fields
  2. groin ringworm
  3. groin vault
  4. groin vaults
  5. groinal
  6. groined
  7. groined vault
  8. groined vaults
  9. groinfield
  10. groinfields
  11. groinful

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