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--n. 3 moan, sigh, murmur, wail, whimper, whine: I thought I
heard a groan coming from the attic. 4 complaint, grumble,
grousing, muttering, Colloq gripe, griping, beef, yammering,
Slang bitching: His announcement that the whole class would be
punished was met by groans.
groggy adj. unsteady, shaky, wobbly, weak-kneed, weak, staggering,
stupefied, dazed, stunned, reeling, punch-drunk, numb, numbed,
benumbed, faint, in a trance or stupor, muddled, addled,
confused, bewildered, confounded, puzzled, baffled, befuddled,
Colloq dopey, punchy, woozy, Brit muzzy: I was still groggy
from the blow on the head.
groom n. 1 stable-boy, stableman, Brit stable-lad, Archaic ostler or
hostler, equerry: The groom unsaddled the horses and began to
curry them. 2 bridegroom: Let's drink to the bride and groom!
--v. 3 spruce up, dress, tidy or neaten up, smarten up,
titivate or tittivate, preen, primp, refresh: Every time she
passes a mirror Vivian stops to groom herself. 4 fit, train,
prepare, coach, tutor, brief, drill, prime, (get or make) ready,
adapt, shape: McCusker is being groomed for a directorship.
groove n. slot, cut, channel, furrow, gouge, trough; flute, scratch,
striation or stria, rifling, rifle, Architecture glyph,
Technical sulcus: The door slides in these grooves at the
sides.
grope v. feel, fumble, fish, probe: I groped for the switch in the
dark.
gross adj. 1 fat, obese, corpulent, overweight, big, large, bulky,
great, heavy, ponderous, massive, cumbersome, unwieldy: The
gross detective eased his bulk onto a tiny chair. 2 total,
aggregate, entire, pre-tax, (all-)inclusive, overall, whole:
The gross profit was up by 15 per cent this year. 3 coarse,
vulgar, crude, unsophisticated, uncultured, uncultivated,
earthy, crass, indelicate, indecent, inappropriate, unseemly,
improper, unrefined, bawdy, ribald, Rabelaisian, raw, rude,
offensive, obscene, lewd, dirty, smutty, pornographic, filthy:
That was too gross a story for mixed company. 4 outrageous,
flagrant, obvious, plain, glaring, shameful, blatant, monstrous,