groan vs grown
Definitions
noun
- an utterance expressing pain or disapproval
verb
- indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure
Examples
Cue for groans and muttered oaths from my neighbors, and that was before they'd stepped out on to Madison, where New York's finest were out in force, checking identities and blocking off half the streets of midtown.
Present receivings and comforts are consistent with a great many groans; not as the pangs of one dying, but as the throes of a woman in travail -- groans that are symptoms of life, not of death.
As he fell and rolled on the ground he moaned and groaned.
Definitions
adjective
- (of animals) fully developed
Examples
Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
The air had grown thick and smoky.
Perhaps the years of abuse, ridicule and scorn make a fully grown redhead all the stronger for it.
