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Webster 1913 Edition

Croak

Croak

(krōk)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Croaked
. (krōkt);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Croaking
.]
[From the primitive of AS.
cracettan
to croak as a raven; akin to G.
krächzen
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

,
Verb.
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.
Shakespeare
Two ravens now began to
croak

Their nuptial song.
Wordsworth.

Croak

,
Noun.
The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.

Webster 1828 Edition

Croak

CROAK

,
Verb.
I.
[L. G. See Crow.]
1.
To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog or other animal.
2.
To caw; to cry as a raven or crow.
3.
To make any low, muttering sound, resembling that of a frog or raven; as, their bellies croak.
4.
In contempt, to speak with a low, hollow voice.

CROAK

,
Noun.
The low, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.

Definition 2024

croak

croak

English

Noun

croak ‎(plural croaks)

  1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
  2. The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)

Translations

Verb

croak ‎(third-person singular simple present croaks, present participle croaking, simple past and past participle croaked)

  1. (intransitive) To make a croak.
  2. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
    • Shakespeare
      The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.
  3. (intransitive, of a frog) To make its cry.
  4. (intransitive, of a raven) To make its cry.
  5. (slang) To die.
  6. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
    He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.
    • G. K. Chesterton
      If Wilton croaked the criminal he did a jolly good day's work, and there's an end of it.
  7. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
    • Carlyle
      Marat […] croaks with reasonableness.

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Etymology

From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan ‎(“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcettung ‎(“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krāk- (compare Swedish kråka, German krächzen), from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-k- (compare Latin grāculus ‎(“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati).

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