'Croak' definitions:
Definition of 'croak'
(from WordNet)
noun
A harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) [syn: croak, croaking]
verb
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" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born]
verb
Utter a hoarse sound, like a raven [syn: croak, cronk]
verb
Definition of 'Croak'
From: GCIDE
- Croak \Croak\, v. t. To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster. [1913 Webster]
- The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Croak'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. [1913 Webster]
- Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Croak'
From: GCIDE
- Croak \Croak\, n. The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'croak'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- air a grievance,
- aphonia,
- apprehend,
- artificial voice,
- beef,
- belch,
- bellyache,
- bitch,
- blare,
- blast,
- blat,
- blot out,
- bode,
- bray,
- broken speech,
- broken tones,
- broken voice,
- bump off,
- burr,
- buy it,
- buzz,
- cackle,
- call,
- carol,
- cash in,
- caw,
- chatter,
- check in,
- check out,
- cheep,
- childish treble,
- chirk,
- chirp,
- chirr,
- chirrup,
- chitter,
- choked voice,
- chuck,
- clack,
- clamor,
- clang,
- clangor,
- clank,
- clash,
- cluck,
- cock-a-doodle-doo,
- complain,
- conk,
- coo,
- crab,
- cracked voice,
- craunch,
- cronk,
- crow,
- crump,
- crunch,
- cuckoo,
- die,
- do in,
- drawl,
- drop off,
- drum,
- dysarthria,
- dyslalia,
- dyslogia,
- dysphasia,
- dysphonia,
- dysphrasia,
- erase,
- expire,
- falsetto,
- fix,
- forebode,
- forewarn,
- fret,
- fret and fume,
- fuss,
- gabble,
- gaggle,
- get,
- give the business,
- go west,
- gobble,
- grind,
- gripe,
- groan,
- grouch,
- grouse,
- growl,
- grumble,
- grunt,
- guggle,
- gun down,
- harshness,
- have a premonition,
- have a presentiment,
- have it,
- hawking voice,
- hiss,
- hit,
- hoarseness,
- holler,
- honk,
- hoo,
- hoot,
- howl,
- ice,
- idioglossia,
- idiolalia,
- impairment of speech,
- jangle,
- jar,
- kick,
- kick in,
- kick off,
- kick the bucket,
- knock off,
- lay out,
- lisp,
- lisping,
- lodge a complaint,
- look black,
- loss of voice,
- lower,
- menace,
- mince,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- muzzy speech,
- nasal tone,
- nasalization,
- off,
- pass,
- pass away,
- pass out,
- peep,
- peg out,
- pip,
- pipe,
- pipe off,
- polish off,
- pop off,
- portend,
- preapprehend,
- quack,
- quarrel,
- quaver,
- raise a howl,
- rasp,
- register a complaint,
- roll,
- rub out,
- scold,
- scranch,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- scrunch,
- settle,
- shake,
- shove off,
- sibilation,
- sing,
- snarl,
- snore,
- speech defect,
- speech impediment,
- squawk,
- step off,
- take care of,
- take on,
- talk incoherently,
- threaten,
- tremor,
- trill,
- twang,
- tweet,
- twit,
- twitter,
- warble,
- warn,
- waste,
- whistle,
- wipe out,
- yap,
- yelp,
- zap