groaning vs rumble

groaning

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

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

  • That groans. 

rumble

noun
  • A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach. 

  • A street fight or brawl. 

  • A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other. 

verb
  • To move while making a rumbling noise. 

  • To make a low, heavy, continuous sound. 

  • To fight; to brawl. 

  • to provide haptic feedback by vibrating. 

  • To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine. 

  • To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour. 

intj
  • An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise 

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