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

1. intransitive 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.
2. intransitive verb. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
3. transitive verb. To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster.
4. noun. The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.
5. noun. a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)

   Synonyms: croaking

6. verb. 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"

   Synonyms: choke, conk, decease, die, exit, expire, go, pass, perish

7. verb. make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath

   "she grumbles when she feels overworked"

   Synonyms: gnarl, grumble, murmur, mutter

8. verb. utter a hoarse sound, like a raven

   Synonyms: cronk

Synonyms

croaking, choke, conk, decease, die, exit, expire, go, pass, perish, gnarl, grumble, murmur, mutter, cronk

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in croak:

arock

Common word forms

croaks, croaked, croaker, croaking

Words from these letters

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