groaning vs thrumming

groaning

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

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

  • That groans. 

thrumming

noun
  • The sound or action of something that thrums. 

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