Definitions
a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
Word origin
From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), probably from Old Norse gróf (“pit”) or from Middle Dutch groeve (“furrow, ditch”), both from Proto-West Germanic *grōbu, from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”).
Used in a sentence
“Through these distresses, the Odd Girl was cheerful and exemplary. But within four hours after dark we had got into a supernatural groove, and the Odd Girl had seen “Eyes,” and was in hysterics.”
“The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.”
“His counterpart Neil Warnock got his tactics spot on as Chelsea struggled to get into any sort of groove in the first half.”
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