groaning

adj

1. (not-comparable)That groans.
2. (figuratively, not-comparable)Heavily laden, as if to creak under the strain.

   “We sat down to a groaning table and feasted all evening.”

noun

1. A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil.

   “From the nearby rail yards came clangings, groanings, chuggings.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, obsolete)Ellipsis of groaning time (“childbirth, labour”).

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of groan