groaning vs pang

groaning

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

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

  • That groans. 

pang

noun
  • A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow. 

  • A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. 

verb
  • To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture. 

  • simple past tense of ping 

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