Definitions for croak
kroʊkcroak

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. croak, croakingverb

   a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)

2. 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 itverb

   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"

3. croak, cronkverb

   utter a hoarse sound, like a raven

4. murmur, mutter, grumble, croak, gnarlverb

   make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath

   "she grumbles when she feels overworked"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. croaknoun

   A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.

2. croaknoun

   The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)

3. croakverb

   To make a croak.

4. croakverb

   Of a frog, to make its cry.

5. croakverb

   To die.

6. croakverb

   Of a raven, to make its cry.

7. croakverb

   To kill someone or something.

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

8. Etymology: croken, back-formation from cracettan, cræccettan, from krāk- (compare Swedish kråka, German krächzen), from greh₂-k- (compare Latin graculus ‘jackdaw’, Serbo-Croatian).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Croaknoun

   The cry or voice of a frog or raven.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   The swallow skims the river’s watry face,
   The frogs renew the croaks of their loquacious race. Dryd.

   Was that a raven’s croak, or my son’s voice?
   No matter which, I’ll to the grave and hide me. Nathaniel Lee, Oed.

2. To CROAKverb

   Etymology: cracezzan, Saxon; crocare, Italian; crocitare, Latin.

   1. To make a hoarse low noise, like a frog.

   The subtle swallow flies about the brook,
   And querulous frogs in muddy pools do croak. Thomas May, Virgil.

   So when Jove’s block descended from on high,
   Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog,
   And the hoarse nation croak’d. Alexander Pope, Dunciad, b. i. l. 264.

   Blood, stuff’d in skins, is British christians food;
   And France robs marshes of the croaking brood. John Gay.

   2. To caw or cry as a raven or crow.

   The raven himself not hoarse,
   That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
   Under my battlements. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   The hoarse raven, on the blasted bough,
   By croaking from the left, presag’d the coming blow. Dryd.

   At the same time the walk of elms, with the croaking of the ravens, looks exceeding solemn and venerable. Joseph Addison, Spectat.

   3. It may be used in contempt for any disagreeable or offensive murmur.

   Their understandings are but little instructed, when all their whole time and pains is laid out to still the croaking of their own bellies. John Locke.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. croak

   1) Croak primarily refers to the distinctive deep, harsh, resonant sound produced by certain species of frogs or toads. 2) In informal or figurative language, croak can mean to speak with a low, hoarse voice. 3) In a more grim sense, croak is also used colloquially to refer to someone's death or the act of dying.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Croakverb

   to make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound

2. Croakverb

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

3. Croakverb

   to utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster

4. Croaknoun

   the coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound

5. Etymology: [From the primitive of AS. cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. krchzen to croak, and to E. creak, crake.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Croak

   krōk, v.i. to utter a low hoarse sound, as a frog or raven: to grumble: to forebode evil: to utter croakingly: (slang) to die.—n. the sound of a frog or raven.—n. Croak′er.—adv. Croak′ily.—n. Croak′ing.—adj. Croak′y. [From the sound. Cf. Crake, Crow.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CROAK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Croak is ranked #35096 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Croak surname appeared 642 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Croak.
   
   96.7% or 621 total occurrences were White.
   1.7% or 11 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Anagrams for croak »

1. arock

How to pronounce croak?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of croak in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of croak in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=croak
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Croak
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=croak
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/croak
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=croak
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html