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# croaked

«croaked» in Mova's school dictionary: **made a deep rough sound, like a frog or a person with a…** — 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)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (literal) made a deep rough sound, like a frog or a person with a sore throat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croaked/#m1)

2) (slang, euphemism) died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croaked/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

The «died» sense is rough, jokey slang used in crime stories, films and dark humour; never polite. All regions.

### examples

- The frogs croaked all night by the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croaked/#x1)
- «Water,» he croaked, after the long walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croaked/#x2)
- In the film, the villain croaked at the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croaked/#x3)
- Gossip: «Did you hear the old miser croaked?» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croaked/#x4)
- My laptop croaked just before I saved my essay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croaked/#x5)
- The raven croaked from the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croaked/#x6)
- The raven flew and croaked--but too soon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croaked/#x7)

### note

Trap: frogs croaking is literal and nice. Using «croaked» for a real death is disrespectful.

### 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 «croaked» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/croaked/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.