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croak

noun

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verb

  1. die
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kɹoʊk/ / /kɹəʊk/

name

Etymology: Variant of Croke.

  1. A surname from Irish.

noun

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.

  1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
  2. The call of a frog or toad.
  3. The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.

verb

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.

  1. To make a croak sound.
  2. To utter in a low, hoarse voice.

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

    “I am so tired,” he croaked. “It’s ageing this nation in Tom Hanks in Castaway years.”

  3. To make its vocal sound.
  4. To die.

    “I would like to understand before I croak. I would like to understand, and then I’m perfectly fine to shuffle off my mortal coil.”

  5. To kill.

    He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.

    "It was me. And I'm glad, damned glad, I didn't croak him. With this slick guy after me, it would be me for the chair."

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

    Marat […] croaks with such reasonableness.

  7. To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.

    The accessor croaks if it's not an appropriate object reference.

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