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Grown vs Groin - What's the difference?

grown | groin |

As verbs the difference between grown and groin

is that grown is while groin is to deliver a blow to the genitals or groin can be to grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.

As an adjective grown

is covered by growth; overgrown.

As a noun groin is

the crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.

grown

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Covered by growth; overgrown.
    • What one was a farm was grown with trees.

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    * English irregular past participles

    groin

    English

    (wikipedia groin)

    Etymology 1

    From earlier grine, from (etyl) grinde, grynde, from (etyl) ; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
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    • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.}}
  • The area adjoining this fold or depression.
    • He pulled a muscle in his groin .
  • (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
  • (euphemistic) The genitals.
    • He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
  • (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
    • Coordinate terms
    * inguinal

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deliver a blow to the genitals.
    • In the scrum he somehow got groined .
    She groined him and ran to the car.
  • (architecture) To build with groins.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
    • (Chaucer)
  • * Spenser
    • bears that groined continually

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