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"Low complaint sound"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (GROANING).
Definitions
Making a low sound of pain, strain or complaint.
Word origin
From Middle English gronynge (“groaning”), from Old English grānung; equivalent to groan + -ing. Conflated with Middle English gronende, present participle of gronen, from Old English grāniende, present participle of grānian (“to groan”). Analyzable as groan + -ing.
Used in a sentence
“We sat down to a groaning table and feasted all evening.”
“From the nearby rail yards came clangings, groanings, chuggings.”
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01“Low complaint sound”8 letters
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