Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to groin
Participle: groined
Gerund: groining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | groin |
| you | groin |
| he;she;it | groins |
| we | groin |
| you | groin |
| they | groin |
Perfect
| I | have groined |
| you | have groined |
| he;she;it | has groined |
| we | have groined |
| you | have groined |
| they | have groined |
Past
| I | groined |
| you | groined |
| he;she;it | groined |
| we | groined |
| you | groined |
| they | groined |
Pluperfect
| I | had groined |
| you | had groined |
| he;she;it | had groined |
| we | had groined |
| you | had groined |
| they | had groined |
Future
| I | will groin |
| you | will groin |
| he;she;it | will groin |
| we | will groin |
| you | will groin |
| they | will groin |
Future Perfect
| I | will have groined |
| you | will have groined |
| he;she;it | will have groined |
| we | will have groined |
| you | will have groined |
| they | will have groined |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | groin |
| you | groin |
| he;she;it | groin |
| we | groin |
| you | groin |
| they | groin |
Perfect
| I | have groined |
| you | have groined |
| he;she;it | have groined |
| we | have groined |
| you | have groined |
| they | have groined |
Imperfect
| I | groined |
| you | groined |
| he;she;it | groined |
| we | groined |
| you | groined |
| they | groined |
Pluperfect
| I | had groined |
| you | had groined |
| he;she;it | had groined |
| we | had groined |
| you | had groined |
| they | had groined |
Conditional
Present
| I | would groin |
| you | would groin |
| he;she;it | would groin |
| we | would groin |
| you | would groin |
| they | would groin |
Perfect
| I | would have groined |
| you | would have groined |
| he;she;it | would have groined |
| we | would have groined |
| you | would have groined |
| they | would have groined |
Imperative
| you | groin |
| we | Let's groin |
| you | groin |
Verbs conjugated like 'groin'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'groin'
grain,
grin,
groan,
proin,
roin,
aroint,
brain,
broid,
broil,
brown,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
4. Proto-Germanic *grunduz
5. Proto-Indo-European *-yom
6. Proto-Indo-European *-yos
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yós
8. Proto-Germanic *-jaz
9. Proto-Germanic *-ją
10. Proto-Germanic *grundiją
11. Proto-West Germanic *grundī
12. Old English grynde
13. Middle English grinde
14. English grine
15. English loininflu.
16. English groin
17. From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.
Sample Sentences
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In the scrum he somehow got groined.
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She groined him and ran to the car.
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The part of the village in which I resided was a grove of cocoa-nut trees, and at night, when the dead leaves were sometimes collected together and burnt, the effect was most magnificent - the tall stems, the fine crowns of foliage, and the immense fruit-clusters, being brilliantly illuminated against a dark sky, and appearing like a fairy palace supported on a hundred columns, and groined over with leafy arches. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 50:]
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Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined. [1918, Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting:]