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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
croak
I.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "I don't feel very well," he croaked.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was not croaking, and he was not going to croak.
▪ He would croak if he opened his mouth, so he kept it shut.
▪ I croaked, wanting to say something, anything, to delay heavenly retribution.
▪ I do not know why Miller should have croaked out such a name.
▪ Mitchell croaked, breaking out from his severe daze.
▪ She felt entirely responsible for the accident although Berg croaked that it was all his own fault.
▪ The man croaked a few hardly comprehensible syllables.
▪ They scrambled to retrieve them, croaking out blessings and thanks.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But nothing emerged, not even a croak.
▪ His voice was hoarse as a raven's croak.
▪ The spinach was in her mouth when a terrible sound came from her throat the gaping croak of nausea.
▪ They chase and frolic, tarry, turn loops; they make croaks, high cries, and rattling sounds.
▪ Winded, Tabitha gasped, a horrible gagging croak.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Croak

Croak \Croak\, n. The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.

Croak

Croak \Croak\ (kr[=o]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Croaked. (kr[=o]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Croaking.] [From the primitive of AS. cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. kr[aum]chzen to croak, and to E. creak, crake.]

  1. To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

    Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked.
    --Pope.

  2. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

    Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness.
    --Carlyle.

Croak

Croak \Croak\, v. t. To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster.

The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.
--Shak.

Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song.
--Wordsworth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
croak

early 14c., crouken, imitative or related to Old English cracian (see crack (v.)). Slang meaning "to die" is first recorded 1812, from sound of death rattle. Related: Croaked; croaking.

croak

1560s, from croak (v.).

Wiktionary
croak

n. 1 A faint, harsh sound made in the throat. 2 The cry of a frog or toad. ''(see also ribbit)'' vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To make a croak. 2 (context transitive English) To utter in a low, hoarse voice. 3 (context intransitive of a frog English) To make its cry. 4 (context intransitive of a raven English) To make its cry. 5 (context slang English) To die. 6 (context transitive slang English) To kill someone or something. 7 To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

WordNet
croak

  1. n. a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) [syn: croaking]

  2. v. die; "The old man finally kicked the bucket" [syn: kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, snuff it]

  3. utter a hoarse sound, like a raven [syn: cronk]

  4. make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she grumbles when she feels overworked" [syn: murmur, mutter, grumble, gnarl]

Wikipedia
Croak

Croak may refer to:

  • Croak, the sound that frogs make
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Usage examples of "croak".

She shrieked to the ravens that croaked from afar, And she sighed to the gusts of the wild sweeping wind.

He tried to choke it back, but the muffled croak was enough to bring Alec from his alcove.

Across the level waters, not so many yards from the boat, Budda croaked once like a frog and pitched forward into the sea, carrying the torch with him.

The night was filled with the croaking of frogs, the cleek, cleek, cleek of the black necked stilt, the zi-zi, zi-zi of cicadas, the choc, choc of the crow blackbirds, and the many other night songs of various wild creatures.

The marshaling of the organelles, the development of the eukaryotic membrane, energy by ingestion, colonies, differentiation, the notochord, the brain, the first croak of distress, courtship, self-expression: the word has always been permanently restless, wanting only to repeat imperfectly, recast what it has been until then.

Betty had drawn back, and now, as the fishwife spoke, in a voice which she tried to render melodious, though it ended only in a croak, the Little Captain seemed to urge her chums away.

He called to Kiri but his voice was a quiet croak in the restless meadow.

Alarmed, the purple-crested loerie croaked in the clump of bamboo beside the eye of the spring.

The battle had been a shield-splitter and Magh Broin was a plain the ravens would long be croaking over.

The seventy-two languages born after the great confusion are ignorant of fundamental letters: for example, the gentiles do not know the letter Het and the Arabs are unaware of Peh, and hence such languages resemble the grunting of swine, the croaking of frogs, or the cry of the crane, because they belong to peoples who have abandoned the true way of life.

She heard him croak and Ratbag, mad with fear and bewilderment, came out from under the sink in a whirl of legs and rocketed out of the door.

The riverman also said that through mist he heard Millard Dee Grubs, now old, and sounding like the croak of a frog.

Bruce croaked a water-strangled reply and Ruffy came ploughing down towards him with clumsy overarm strokes.

Pete managed a croak, his limbs sagging as he gaped at the knife handle protruding from his chest.

It was the time of low Nile when all the land is baked like a crust of bread, when the creaking of the shadoofs and the singing croak of the sakkia are heard the night long like untiring crickets with throats of frogs.