(v. i.) To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan.
(v. i.) To strive after earnestly, as with groans.
(v. t.) To affect by groans.
(n.) A low, moaning sound; usually, a deep, mournful sound uttered in pain or great distress; sometimes, an expression of strong disapprobation; as, the remark was received with groans.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the final three visible minutes, Lockett writhed, groaned, attempted to lift himself off the gurney and tried to speak, despite a doctor having declared him unconscious.
(2) If I give a conference here, people groan when I talk about him.
(3) Of the Iraqi people, groaning under years of dictatorship.
(4) We meet at the headquarters of the Independent and the Evening Standard in Kensington, in an office scented by a Jo Malone orange blossom candle, and groaning with contemporary art.
(5) Clippard gets ahead of him 0-2, throws a high fastball which Carpenter refuses to chase and then takes two more balls to the collective groan of Nationals Park.
(6) Despite the world-weary tone of a brutal review in the New York Times, which suggested that it added nothing new to the "groaning shelf" of homosexual literature, a story with an unashamedly gay protagonist unleashed a storm of protest in a country where sodomy was still illegal.
(7) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
(8) Not all the jokes land, and some of the tastelessness may inspire groans.
(9) A s the schools break up for summer, the shelves of Britain’s retailers are groaning with “half price” sun protection cream offers, ready for families heading to the beach.
(10) The retired appeal court judge's report, which runs to three volumes, found that troops from 1st Battalion Queen's Lancashire Regiment inflicted "gratuitous" violence on a group of 10 Iraqi civilians, who were kicked and hit in turn, "causing them to emit groans and other noises and thereby playing them like musical instruments".
(11) "Oh God," groaned a delegate leafing through the guide to fringe meetings.
(12) There were groans as Clinton was declared victorious, although there was also defiance.
(13) Read more The MEPs responded to his oration with a mixture of boos, groans, shouts and ironic applause.
(14) The family justice review speculates that the cost of the entire groaning, overloaded family court system – only likely to be exacerbated after Thursday's report into the death of another toddler, Ryan Lovell Hancox – could be in the region of £1.5bn.
(15) The home fans groaned whenever the ball went near the Romanian, Benteke often pulled away to the left to unsettle him, and Villa’s opener came after he conceded possession cheaply inside his own half.
(16) Meanwhile, New York and New Jersey groaned back to life after travel bans.
(17) "There's a stereotype of a groaning bodybuilding guy using the weights area," says McGown.
(18) I'd groan at gossip magazines, furious with the world's asinine obsession with celebrity, disappointed by women gazing doe-eyed at the camera with vulnerable, save-me expressions on their Botoxed faces.
(19) Between their inward groans and suppressed giggles, the friends recognised something of great value, a familiar form no other artist had yet nicked.
(20) I can think of many things, of whether we summon the strength to recognise the global challenge of the 21st century and beat it, of the Iraqi people groaning under years of dictatorship, of our armed forces - brave men and women of whom we can feel proud, whose morale is high and whose purpose is clear - of the institutions and alliances that shape our world for years to come.
Weep
Definition:
(v. i.) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.
(n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
() imp. of Weep, for wept.
(v. i.) To lament; to complain.
(v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.
(v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
(v. i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
(v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
(v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with bilateral forebrain disease may commonly manifest the syndrome of pathologic laughing and weeping.
(2) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
(3) We report the emergence of an erythematous weeping rash with impending exfoliation three years after the initiation of minoxidil therapy.
(4) Abu Qatada's brothers, children and sisters remained on a court bench, some of the women weeping as journalists pressed against the courtroom cell to ask the Salafist leader about his views on Isis violence.
(5) Dan Heymann, a reluctant army conscript, wrote the brutally satirical Weeping for His Band Bright Blue .
(6) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
(7) Past reunions brought together weeping family members desperate for details and news.
(8) A Syrian man who was pictured weeping as he and his family reached the Greek island of Kos last month has arrived in Berlin, it has been reported.
(9) People were weeping in the streets outside, but once the fire was out everyone took stock a little bit.
(10) How was I expected to get through the night without weeping openly?
(11) That’s fine, that’s the great thing about being an artist – I’m not going to weep over their multimillion-pound suit trousers.” Grayson Perry: All Man concludes on Thursday 19 May at 10pm on Channel 4
(12) As measured by the Hospital Observed Behavior Scale, subjects in the intensive care unit exhibited apprehension, anxiety, detachment, sadness, and weeping more often than did patients in the ward.
(13) These genes do not appear to play a role in infection of weeping lovegrass because both parents and all progeny infect weeping lovegrass.
(14) Angry beyond belief, unable to control his weeping, he ran to the local governor's office to complain at this vicious injustice.
(15) If the football fans were like that, Emile Heskey would be an almost sacred figure and people would still be weeping about Peter Beardsley.
(16) He said she was weeping with shock but was not taken to hospital and instead was met by her boyfriend and taken to stay with her sister.
(17) Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.” It’s not a sentiment reflected in ACL press releases, less concerned with warning the rich than fighting the queers.
(18) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
(19) Although this form of application is a special presentation for the treatment of very dry dermatoses, patients with not so dry and weeping dermatoses were also treated in this trial, the object being to include the role played by the vehicle in the results of therapy.
(20) Only a short bus ride from Princes Street, it combines peace and tranquillity, a burbling stream, and autumn colours to make New England weep.