groaning vs sighing

groaning

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

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

  • That groans. 

sighing

noun
  • The utterance of a sigh. 

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