groaning vs lowering

groaning

adj
  • That groans. 

  • Heavily laden, as if to creak under the strain. 

noun
  • A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil. 

lowering

adj
  • That lowers or frowns. 

  • Dark and menacing. 

  • Lurking, skulking, menacing. 

noun
  • The act of something being lowered. 

How often have the words groaning and lowering occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )