Object

• vault: Even the architectural devices, buttress and pinnacle, groin vault and rose window, belong as parts of a whole.

• roof: Overhead is a groined stone roof, the ribs of which meet in a central boss.

• ceiling: It consists of an arched gateway with a groined ceiling, over which is a tower with a high pointed roof.

Converse of object

• leave: Place a folded drape over the genitalia, leaving the groins clear for any femoral exploration.

• pierce: Two accidents involved transport; a tractor overturn on a rubbish tip and a pierced groin from the forks of a loader.

• strain: Once you tear or even badly strain the groin it can stay with you forever in some form or another.

• pull: Someone will bugger up their leg or pull a groin.

Adjective modifier

• right: A fine catheter is introduced into an artery in the right groin.

• sore: Tired legs, a sore groin and weary calves kept him on the bench also for Wolves draw with Sheff Utd.

• left: A 24 year-old male comes to me with pain and a lump in his left groin.

• troublesome: Nicky Summerbee was also injured at Barnsley, suffering a shoulder problem, which forced Dean Holdsworth into action despite his troublesome groin.

Modifies a noun

• hernia: A large groin hernia or an umbilical hernia are usually obvious.

• strain: He returned home early from the trip with a groin strain then suffered his Achilles injury in his comeback game for the reserves.

• injury: Richard Butler, who had suffered a reaction to his groin injury, was deemed fit enough only for a place on the bench.

• protector: Get used to hearing and seeing it, and not just on cricket bats and groin protectors.

• infection: Candidal infections of the groin often involve the scrotum, in contrast to dermatophyte groin infections, which do not usually involve this area.

• muscle: He has damaged a groin muscle in his club's 1-0 win over Watford on Monday.

Possessives

• opponent: The fact is that Rooney stuck his boot into his opponent's groin in a violent manner.

Preposition: for

• bleeding: She will also check your groin for any bleeding.