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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Croak \Croak\ (kr?k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Croaked}. (kr?kt); p. pr & vb n. {Croaking}.] [From the primitive of AS cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. kr?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.
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