Crossword clues for croaked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness.
--Carlyle.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: croak)
Usage examples of "croaked".
Possums and raccoons clambered in the trees, owls hooted, frogs croaked, insects zinged, night birds called, and crickets chirped frenetically.
Even if she did have laryngitis, she'd have gotten on the phone and croaked a reply to him.
As if he were breaking under the strain, he croaked, "What do you want from me?
Nearly strangling, he croaked out the word that sent his men into combat mode.
He hurried to his feet as Kreacher disentangled himself and, bowing low to Harry, croaked, “Kreacher has returned with the thief Mundungus Fletcher, Master.
Romanelli croaked, shoving his way to the front of the group and leading them forward.
Crickets sang and frogs croaked down in some wet place, probably Cal Goodell's cowpond.
A woman named Rose Kingman claimed to have seen him snap his fingers at a number of crows sitting on a telephone wire, and the crows fluttered down onto his shoulders, this Rose Kingman said, and she further testified that they had croaked "Flagg .
Stronghand signaled, and Last Son struck down the dogs while Quickdeath twitched and croaked in agony as the venom coursed through his body.