groaning vs sob

groaning

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

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

  • That groans. 

sob

noun
  • sound of sob 

  • A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath. 

verb
  • To soak. 

  • To say (something) while sobbing. 

  • To weep with convulsive gasps. 

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