groan
verb🔊/ɡrəʊn/
🔊/ɡrəʊn/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they groan | 🔊/ɡrəʊn/ 🔊/ɡrəʊn/ |
| he / she / it groans | 🔊/ɡrəʊnz/ 🔊/ɡrəʊnz/ |
| past simple groaned | 🔊/ɡrəʊnd/ 🔊/ɡrəʊnd/ |
| past participle groaned | 🔊/ɡrəʊnd/ 🔊/ɡrəʊnd/ |
| -ing form groaning | 🔊/ˈɡrəʊnɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈɡrəʊnɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to make a long deep sound because you are annoyed, upset or in pain, or with pleasure 呻吟；叹息；哼哼 He lay on the floor groaning. 他躺在地板上呻吟。 🔊🔊 - groan with something
to groan with pain/pleasure 痛苦地呻吟；高兴得直哼哼 - groan at something
We all groaned at his terrible jokes. 他讲的笑话很糟糕，我们都发出不满的抱怨声。 🔊🔊 - + speech
‘It's a complete mess!’ she groaned. “这简直是一团糟！” 她叹息道。 🔊🔊 ‘Don’t move me,’ he groaned. 别动我，他呻吟着。
Homophones groan | growngroan grown🔊/ɡrəʊn/🔊/ɡrəʊn/- groan verb
The awful jokes made us all groan. 可怕的笑话使我们所有人吟。
- groan noun
He let out a groan of pain. 他发出痛苦的吟。
- grown (past participle of grow)
The business has grown hugely in the last ten years. 在过去的十年中，这项业务取得了巨大的发展。
- grown adjective
Although he's a grown man, he'll always be our little boy. 尽管他是一个成年男子，但他将永远是我们的小男孩。
Extra ExamplesHe groaned at the pain. 他为痛苦而吟。 Some of the patients were groaning with pain. 一些病人痛苦地呻吟着。 He groaned inwardly at the thought of spending another day in that place. 一想到要在那儿再待上一天，他就暗自叫苦。 She groaned out loud in protest. 她大声抱怨，以示抗议。 There's no point in moaning and groaning about not having any money. 为没钱而不停地抱怨是毫无意义的。 She tried to get up and groaned with pain. 她试图站起来，痛苦地吟。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- loudly
- quietly
- softly
- …
- in
- with
- at
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- moan and groan
- [intransitive, transitive]
to complain about something, especially in an annoying way synonym grumble (1) - groan about something
They were all moaning and groaning about the amount of work they had. 他们对工作量都怨声载道。 🔊🔊 - + speech
‘It's not fair!’ she groaned. '这不公平！' 她吟。
- groan about something
- [intransitive]
to make a sound like a person groaning 发出似呻吟的声音
Word OriginOld English grānian, of Germanic origin; related to German greinen ‘grizzle, whine’, grinsen ‘grin’, also probably to grin.
Idioms
groan under the weight of something
- (formal)
used to say that there is too much of something 在某物的折磨（或重压）下呻吟；被某物压得喘不过气来（或无法忍受） The table groaned under the weight of the biggest buffet they had ever seen. 桌子在他们见过的最大自助餐的重量下吟。