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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Croak \Croak\, verb (used with an object) To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster.
The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan. --Shak.
Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song. --Wordsworth.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Croak \Croak\, noun The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Croak \Croak\ (kr[=o]k), verb (used without an object) [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.
Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. --Pope.
2. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. --Carlyle.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
croak
noun: a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) [syn: {croaking}]
verb
1: die; "The old man finally kicked the bucket" [syn: {kick the bucket}, {cash in one's chips}, {buy the farm}, {conk}, {give-up the ghost}, {drop dead}, {pop off}, {choke}, {snuff it}]
2: utter a hoarse sound, like a raven [syn: {cronk}]
3: make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she grumbles when she feels overworked" [syn: {murmur}, {mutter}, {grumble}, {gnarl}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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