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croak::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | croaking |
| Type of | utterance, vocalization |
| Derivation | croaky |
croak::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| Type of | turn, change state |
| Has types | yield, abort, asphyxiate, buy it, drown, fall, famish, pip out, predecease, starve, stifle, succumb, suffocate |
| Verb group | go, go bad, fail, die, break down, conk out, break, give out, give way |
Examples of croak
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His rhymes evoke Lil Wayne's manic croak transposed into a suave, sonorous purr.
From the washingtonpost.com
Their flying whales and even the gigantic mushrooms they live in will croak, too.
From the thenewstribune.com
Over-coddling in the form of overwatering is the single reason these plants croak.
From the ocregister.com
For this futile croak, the aged survivor is expelled from the Communist Party.
From the time.com
Deer bound away through the thickets and ravens croak from the ledges above.
From the post-gazette.com
They croak at night and leave droppings on the outside walls of the house.
From the sacbee.com
Croak, the tournament director, was able to get Powerades out there today.
From the jsonline.com
Croak did not want to take money from another student whose sight is worse than hers.
From the thenewstribune.com
The cricket chirps a good night song, after the bullfrogs croak a story ever so long.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- A harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)
- Die: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
- Utter a hoarse sound, like a raven
- Murmur: make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she grumbles when she feels overworked"
- A faint, harsh sound made in the throat; The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit); To make a croak; Of a frog, to make its cry; To die; Of a raven, to make its cry; To kill someone or something
- A deep hoarse sound made by a frog
- To kill (Key, 84; Pick-Up, 86)
- "I'm dying," Tom croaked.
- Crack mixed with methamphetamine; methamphetamine
