groaning
adjectifnomverbecourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈɡɹəʊnɪŋ//
- États-Unis//ˈɡɹoʊnɪŋ//
That groans.
adjectif
- 1
That groans.
- 2
figuréHeavily laden, as if to creak under the strain.
We sat down to a groaning table and feasted all evening.
Étymologie
From Middle English gronynge (“groaning”), from Old English grānung; equivalent to groan + -ing. Conflated with Middle English gronende, present participle of gronen, from Old English grāniende, present participle of grānian (“to groan”). Analyzable as groan + -ing.
nom
- 1
A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil.
From the nearby rail yards came clangings, groanings, chuggings.
- 2
Variante de groaning timeobsolèteEllipsis of groaning time (“childbirth, labour”).
verbe
- 1
Aussi une forme de groanpresent participle and gerund of groan
Formes
- pluriel
- groanings