verb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
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Origin of croak
Words nearby croak
Example sentences from the Web for croak
When Tony takes over Danny's body, his voice begins to croak and he shakes his pointer finger for emphasis.
And then I sit on a bench facing the grave and a raven says something in a croak a few steps from me.
But dey can't hang me, no sah, dey can't, 'cause mah man croak two weeks later.Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman
He will awake to drive away the crows which croak around the mountain.
By my sword, the Sweetheart of the Faith, never did frogs at a mid-summer drought croak more frightfully than those scamps.
Suppose we'd croak this man in th' hot par-rt av th' p'litical fight; what happens?The Wreckers|Francis Lynde
From a small almost black lake rose, like a mysterious wail, the plaintive croak of tiny frogs.Dream Tales and Prose Poems|Ivan Turgenev
British Dictionary definitions for croak
- (intr) to die
- (tr) to kill