groaning vs yelp

groaning

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

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

  • That groans. 

yelp

noun
  • An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance. 

  • A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail. 

verb
  • To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise. 

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