croak : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: croak	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for croak
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
croak n a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) [syn: croak, croaking] v 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" Synonym(s): 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 Antonym(s): be born utter a hoarse sound, like a raven Synonym(s): croak, cronk make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she grumbles when she feels overworked" Synonym(s): murmur, mutter, grumble, croak, gnarl
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Croak \Croak\, n. The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Croak \Croak\ (kr?k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Croaked}. (kr[?]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Croaking}.] [From the primitive of AS. cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. kr[?]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. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Croak \Croak\, v. 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. --Shak. Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song. --Wordsworth.