groaning vs yowl

groaning

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

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

  • That groans. 

yowl

noun
  • A prolonged, loud cry, like the sound of an animal; a wail; a howl. 

verb
  • Utter a yowl. 

  • Express by yowling; utter with a yowl. 

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