[syn: murmur, mutter, grumble, croak, gnarl]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Croak \Croak\, v. t.
To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to
forebode; as, to croak disaster.
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The raven himself is hoarse,
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. --Shak.
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Two ravens now began to croak
Their nuptial song. --Wordsworth.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Croak \Croak\, n.
The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a
like sound.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Croak \Croak\ (kr[=o]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Croaked.
(kr[=o]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Croaking.] [From the primitive
of AS. cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. kr[aum]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.
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Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog,
And the hoarse nation croaked. --Pope.
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2. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to
utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
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Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. --Carlyle.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
croak
n 1: a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) [syn: croak,
croaking]
v 1: 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" [syn: 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] [ant:
be born]
2: utter a hoarse sound, like a raven [syn: croak, cronk]
3: make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she
grumbles when she feels overworked" [syn: murmur, mutter,
grumble, croak, gnarl]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
186 Moby Thesaurus words for "croak":
air a grievance, aphonia, apprehend, artificial voice, beef, belch,
bellyache, bitch, blare, blast, blat, blot out, bode, bray,
broken speech, broken tones, broken voice, bump off, burr, buy it,
buzz, cackle, call, carol, cash in, caw, chatter, check in,
check out, cheep, childish treble, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup,
chitter, choked voice, chuck, clack, clamor, clang, clangor, clank,
clash, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, complain, conk, coo, crab,
cracked voice, craunch, cronk, crow, crump, crunch, cuckoo, die,
do in, drawl, drop off, drum, dysarthria, dyslalia, dyslogia,
dysphasia, dysphonia, dysphrasia, erase, expire, falsetto, fix,
forebode, forewarn, fret, fret and fume, fuss, gabble, gaggle, get,
give the business, go west, gobble, grind, gripe, groan, grouch,
grouse, growl, grumble, grunt, guggle, gun down, harshness,
have a premonition, have a presentiment, have it, hawking voice,
hiss, hit, hoarseness, holler, honk, hoo, hoot, howl, ice,
idioglossia, idiolalia, impairment of speech, jangle, jar, kick,
kick in, kick off, kick the bucket, knock off, lay out, lisp,
lisping, lodge a complaint, look black, loss of voice, lower,
menace, mince, murmur, mutter, muzzy speech, nasal tone,
nasalization, off, pass, pass away, pass out, peep, peg out, pip,
pipe, pipe off, polish off, pop off, portend, preapprehend, quack,
quarrel, quaver, raise a howl, rasp, register a complaint, roll,
rub out, scold, scranch, scrape, scratch, scrunch, settle, shake,
shove off, sibilation, sing, snarl, snore, speech defect,
speech impediment, squawk, step off, take care of, take on,
talk incoherently, threaten, tremor, trill, twang, tweet, twit,
twitter, warble, warn, waste, whistle, wipe out, yap, yelp, zap