Dictionary Entry
croak
croak is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.
- 2intransitive verb
To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
- 3transitive verb
To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster.
- 4noun
The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.
- 5noun
a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)
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- 6verb
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"
- 7verb
make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath
"she grumbles when she feels overworked"
- 8verb
utter a hoarse sound, like a raven
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