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croak
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
croaks; croaked; croaking
croaks; croaked; croaking
Learner's definition of CROAK
1
[no object] : to make the deep, harsh sound that a frog makes（青蛙）呱呱叫
- We could hear the frogs croaking by the pond.我们可以听见青蛙在池塘边呱呱叫。
2
: to say (something) in a rough, low voice that is hard to understand用低沉沙哑的声音说话
[+ object]
- The man could only croak his name.那个男子只能用沙哑的嗓音说出自己的名字。
[no object]
- He tried to speak but could barely croak.他想要说话，可是只能勉强发出嘶哑的声音。
3
[no object] slang : to die死
- He had a heart attack and croaked.他突发心脏病死了。
— croak
noun, plural croaks [count]- the croaks of the frogs青蛙呱呱的叫声
croaked; croaking; croaks
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Verb We could hear the frogs croaking by the pond. The man could only croak his name. He tried to speak but could barely croak. He had a heart attack and croaked.
Recent Examples on the Web
Washington Post, 28 June 2021 Frogs croaked from a nearby ditch; birds trilled from the field’s edge. Kirk Johnson, New York Times, 9 May 2020 Curtains of Spanish moss hang limply from cypress trees; frogs croak from their lily pad perches, and lazy alligators float through backwater channels. Dallas News, 4 May 2020 Mono Lake in California has a huge population of frogs that normally croak in unison to keep predators from locating and targeting individual frogs. John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2020 There are nearly 5,000 different species of frogs hopping, croaking, and swimming across the Earth of all different shapes and sizes. Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2020 Cisco croaks as Wells wraps his hands around his neck. Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2019 Watching from bare branches, ravens warbled and croaked. Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2019 Imagine the coniferous forests of the American West and you probably picture tall trees, forest floors littered with pine needles and pinecones, black bears, mountain lions, croaking frogs, and mountain blue birds. National Geographic, 12 Aug. 2019 Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2022 Frogs croak, a skylark soars above all in dazzling pianistic glitter, grasshopper warblers rattle as their names suggest, and one reed warbler enters into a rapturous contrapuntal duet with another. Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2021 Morrissey, who had an unvarnished croak for a voice and a melodic style that was very much his own, once called to his roommate from another room. BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2011 Bullfrogs croak and Yaqui topminnows wiggle through the pool once fed solely by natural artesian wells pulling ancient water from an aquifer. Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2020 The croak of thousands of invisible amphibians falls suddenly silent as the vets pass by on the way to Puntung's enclosure. Henry Nicholls, Scientific American, 30 May 2012 Bullfrogs croak and Yaqui topminnows wiggle through the pool once fed solely by natural artesian wells pulling ancient water from an aquifer. Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2020 Bullfrogs croak and Yaqui topminnows wiggle through the pool once fed solely by natural artesian wells pulling ancient water from an aquifer. Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2020 Bullfrogs croak and Yaqui topminnows wiggle through the pool once fed solely by natural artesian wells pulling ancient water from an aquifer. Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2020 See More
Verb
For now, her two dogs, Wendy and Capitán, wait by the hamper; the roosters continue to croak; and a mother clutches her daughter’s photo in one hand and a rosary in the other. Washington Post, 28 June 2021 Frogs croaked from a nearby ditch; birds trilled from the field’s edge. Kirk Johnson, New York Times, 9 May 2020 Curtains of Spanish moss hang limply from cypress trees; frogs croak from their lily pad perches, and lazy alligators float through backwater channels. Dallas News, 4 May 2020 Mono Lake in California has a huge population of frogs that normally croak in unison to keep predators from locating and targeting individual frogs. John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2020 There are nearly 5,000 different species of frogs hopping, croaking, and swimming across the Earth of all different shapes and sizes. Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2020 Cisco croaks as Wells wraps his hands around his neck. Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2019 Watching from bare branches, ravens warbled and croaked. Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2019 Imagine the coniferous forests of the American West and you probably picture tall trees, forest floors littered with pine needles and pinecones, black bears, mountain lions, croaking frogs, and mountain blue birds. National Geographic, 12 Aug. 2019 Noun
Soon, the croak of Atlanta’s very own Wizrd filled the studio. Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2022 Frogs croak, a skylark soars above all in dazzling pianistic glitter, grasshopper warblers rattle as their names suggest, and one reed warbler enters into a rapturous contrapuntal duet with another. Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2021 Morrissey, who had an unvarnished croak for a voice and a melodic style that was very much his own, once called to his roommate from another room. BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2011 Bullfrogs croak and Yaqui topminnows wiggle through the pool once fed solely by natural artesian wells pulling ancient water from an aquifer. Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2020 The croak of thousands of invisible amphibians falls suddenly silent as the vets pass by on the way to Puntung's enclosure. Henry Nicholls, Scientific American, 30 May 2012 Bullfrogs croak and Yaqui topminnows wiggle through the pool once fed solely by natural artesian wells pulling ancient water from an aquifer. Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2020 Bullfrogs croak and Yaqui topminnows wiggle through the pool once fed solely by natural artesian wells pulling ancient water from an aquifer. Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2020 Bullfrogs croak and Yaqui topminnows wiggle through the pool once fed solely by natural artesian wells pulling ancient water from an aquifer. Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2020 See More Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English croken, of imitative origin
First Known Use
Verb
15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a
Noun
1561, in the meaning defined above
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