Crossword-Solution: GROAN 5 letters, 187 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Groan	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.
Groan	v. i.	To strive after earnestly, as with groans.
Groan	v. t.	To affect by groans.
Groan	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.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
GROAN	anagram	AGRON, ARGON, GORAN, GRANO, NAGOR, ORANG, ORGAN, RAGON, RANGO, ROGAN

We have 187 clues for the answer “GROAN”

Clue	Answers
"Aw, Mom!" intonation	1 answer
"Do I have to?" accompaniment, say	1 answer
"Do I have to?" sound	1 answer
"Ouch!" relative, in response to a pun	1 answer
(That was corny!)	1 answer
Express pain audibly	1 answer
A bad pun can induce one	1 answer
A pun can induce one	1 answer
Adverse reaction to corn?	1 answer
Aw, mom! sound	1 answer
Aw, mom! utterance	1 answer
Bad pun outcome	1 answer
Bad pun reaction	1 answer
Be loaded down.	1 answer
Be overburdened	1 answer
Classic reaction to a pun	1 answer
Corny joke reaction	1 answer
Despairing sound	1 answer
Disappointed response	1 answer
Express stress, in a way	1 answer
Frequent reaction to a pun	1 answer
Frequent response to a dad joke	1 answer
Heaver's vocalization	1 answer
It often follows a pun	1 answer
MOANING sound	1 answer
Make a low sound in pain or sadness	1 answer
Make pained sound	1 answer
Moan and __	1 answer
Moan and __ (complain)	1 answer
Moan partner	1 answer
More than a murmur	1 answer
Mutter of protest	1 answer
Pop quiz reaction, perhaps	1 answer
Preceder of "Do I have to?"	1 answer
Pretend to be a ghost	1 answer
Pro-wrestling sound	1 answer
Pun follower, at times	1 answer
Pun follower, often	1 answer
Pun product	1 answer
Pun reaction, maybe	1 answer
Pun reaction, often	1 answer
Punch line postlude, perhaps	1 answer
Punster's evocation	1 answer
React to a dad joke	1 answer
React to an outrageous pun	1 answer
Reaction to "Take my wife, please!"	1 answer
Reaction to a "dad joke"	1 answer
Reaction to a pop quiz, often	1 answer
Reaction to a pun	1 answer
Reaction to a pun, often	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TERAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with GROAN (5)

When he finished, he was so full that he was not able to get out, and began to groan and lament his fate.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

When the King saw him, with a terrible groan He moved towards him, crying, “O my son What hast thou done? What ailed thee? What mischance Has reft thee of thy reason? O come forth, Come forth, my son; thy father supplicates.” But the son glared at him with tiger eyes, Spat in his face, and then, without a word, Drew his two-hilted sword and smote, but missed His father flying backwards.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Suddenly he heard a groan--his teeth chattered, and his knees smote against the saddle: it was but the rubbing of one huge bough upon another, as they were swayed about by the breeze.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992

Then I wiped my feet upon the yellow tresses; and as a groan of rage arose from the balcony I spat full upon the holy diadem.

The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Burgess didn’t seem to mind it; Adams couldn’t smile, he could only mourn and groan over what had happened and torture himself with vain regrets for not having done so and so instead of so and so—_then _he would have succeeded.

What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with GROAN (3)

I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. II Hear the mellow …

Edgar Allan Poe

And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I've served ye well.

Diana Gabaldon Outlander

Pedersen was always wooing her. Sometimes he was gracious and kind, but at other times when his failure wearied him he would be cruel and sardonic, with a suggestive tongue whose vice would have scourged her were it not that Marie was impervious, or too deeply inured to mind it. She always grinned at him and fobbed him off with pleasantries, whether he was amorous or acrid.'God Almighty,' he would groan, 'she is not good for me, this Marie. What can I do for her? She is burni…

A.E. Coppard Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 162 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).