grunting
present participle ofgrunt
grunt
verb[I]
uk/ɡrʌnt/us/ɡrʌnt/(of apig) to make alow,roughnoise:
Thepigswere gruntingcontentedlyas theyatetheirfood.
(of aperson) to make ashort,lowsoundinsteadofspeaking, usually because ofangerorpain:
Hehauledhimself over thewall, grunting with theeffort.
[+ speech]"Tootired," he grunted andsatdown.
Animal (non-human) sounds
- baa
- bleat
- buzzy
- caterwauling
- chatter
- cockcrow
- coo
- cry
- hee-haw
- honk
- howling
- miaow
- moo
- peep
- purr
- quack
- squeak
- trill
- trumpet
- warble
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Examplesofgrunting
grunting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The clinical manifestations begin at or soon after birth and are characterized by tachypnoea,gruntingrespirations, chest wall recession and nasal -aring.
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After sixteen cases with lung disease had been admitted, only four had in fact exhibitedgrunting.
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The expert's opinion was that the proportion of cases of lung disease that exhibitedgruntingwould be between 80% and 90%; the mean value being 85%.
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We usually hear certain rumblings and premonitory gruntings before the charge is made.
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It is not a conventicle of muscle-bound health freaks sweating andgruntingtheir way to cardiac arrest.
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We have put up with a quarter of an hour of things that were not much less thangruntingnoises.
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But when the hogs aregruntingat its hindquarters at the same time it is even worse.
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I wish that he would stand up so that he can be identified, instead ofgruntingin the corner.
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Their gruntings have no effect upon argument.
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The merchant bankers, accountants, estate agents, brokers, underwriters and lawyers are all out there, jostling,gruntingand squealing, waiting to get their noses back into the privatisation trough.
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Even tennis, a relatively gentle game, is becoming almost brutal at the men's finals level—bigger rackets,gruntingall round, serve and volley, over in five minutes.
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He s there in the background,gruntingapprovingly, reminding everybody who made this possible.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They makegruntingand hissing sounds, like other cassowaries.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If it is harassed further, it will twitch in an attempt to jab spines into the predator and make snuffling/gruntingnoises.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The birds are rarely heard but seem to produce soft, grumblinggruntingnoises.
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