Unscramble croak

Definition of croak

noun:

• a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog). Synonyms: croaking.

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", "The patient went peacefully", "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102". Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it. Antonyms: be born.
• utter a hoarse sound, like a raven. Synonyms: cronk.
• make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she grumbles when she feels overworked". Synonyms: gnarl, grumble, murmur, mutter.

Related words

abort, asphyxiate, drown, fall, famish, predecease, starve, stifle, succumb, suffocate, yield.

Words nearby

cloak, creak, croaky, croat, crock, cronk, crook, groak.

Rhymes with

baroque, bespoke, bloke, broke, choke, cloak, coke, convoke, evoke, evoke, folk, invoke, joke, koch, moke, oak, poke, polk, provoke, revoke.