grone

See also: gröne

English

Verb

grone (third-person singular simple present grones, present participle groning, simple past and past participle groned)

  1. Obsolete spelling of groan
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I‎, 1921 ed. edition:
      Dead is Sansfoy, his vitall paines are past, Though greeved ghost for vengeance deepe do grone: He lives, that shall him pay his dewties last,[*] 440 And guiltie Elfin blood shall sacrifice in hast.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French grain.

Noun

grone

  1. Alternative form of greyn

Etymology 2

From Old English grānian.

Verb

grone

  1. Alternative form of gronen

Etymology 3

A back-formation from gronen.

Noun

grone

  1. Alternative form of gron
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