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# croak

«croak» in Mova's school dictionary: **When a frog or crow croaks, it makes a deep, rough sound** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (croak, croaks, croaked, croaking); noun (a croak, croaks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (verb) When a frog or crow croaks, it makes a deep, rough sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croak/#m1)

2) (verb) When a person croaks, they speak in a deep, rough voice, for example because of a sore throat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croak/#m2)

3) (noun) A croak is that rough sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croak/#m3)

4) (slang) To croak means to die; it is a joking, not polite, way to say it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croak/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In nature and science lessons frogs and toads croak, especially to attract mates. In stories a character with a cold croaks. As slang it appears in cartoons and jokey talk about dying; it is not respectful. Phrases: croak out (say with a rough voice).

### examples

- The frogs croaked loudly all night by the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croak/#x1)
- «I've lost my voice,» she croaked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croak/#x2)
- A crow croaked from the top of the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croak/#x3)
- We heard a croak from under the lily pad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croak/#x4)
- He could only croak out a whisper after the football match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croak/#x5)
- (slang) In the cartoon, the villain says, «If I don't get water, I'll croak!» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croak/#x6)
- Male frogs croak to call females. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croak/#x7)
- Then some frogs began to croak in the marsh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croak/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: croaked. The slang sense «to die» is rude and jokey — never use it about someone who has really died; say «passed away» or «died». Not related to «crook» or «crock».

### In the corpora

- ["Croaked" means died; it is rough slang.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «croak» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croak/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.