croak
Plural: croaks
Noun
- a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)
- A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
- The call of a frog or toad.
- The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.
Verb
Verb Forms: croaked, croaking, croaks
- To utter a low, hoarse sound, like a frog or raven.
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- utter a hoarse sound, like a raven
- make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
- To make a croak sound.
- To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
- To make its vocal sound.
- To die.
- To kill someone or something.
- To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
- To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.
Examples
- His opponent let out a CROAK of dismay when he saw the winning word.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin.
See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic.
Synonyms
buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croaking, cronk, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, gnarl, go, grumble, kick the bucket, murmur, mutter, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it, ribbit
Antonyms
be born
Scrabble Score: 11
croak: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcroak: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
croak: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary