groan vs grown
Definitions
noun
- an utterance expressing pain or disapproval
verb
- indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure
Examples
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.
As I watched him, he groaned and tried to raise his hands to his face; the chain from his wrist to his ankle manacles stopped him.
Definitions
adjective
- (of animals) fully developed
Examples
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.
Those morning glories are grown every year along the south face of the historic, well-preserved post-and-beam barn that is the center of Heritage Farm; the 890-acre spread a few miles north of Decorah that Seed Savers Exchange now calls home.
