croak

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

croaks

1.
A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
2.
The call of a frog or toad.
Đồng nghĩa: ribbit
3.
The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

croaks

V_ing/Gerund

croaking

V_ed/pp

croaked

1.
(intransitive)To make a croak sound.
2.
(transitive)To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
3.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its vocal sound.
4.
(slang)To die.
5.
(slang, transitive)To kill.
He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.
If Wilton croaked the criminal he did a jolly good day's work, and there's an end of it.
6.
To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
7.
(slang)(programming slang, Perl) To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.

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Đồng nghĩa

ribbit

Cùng gốc / liên quan

croaklesscroaky

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (to croak) (also in derivative crǣcetung (croaking)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of origin.