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croakverb to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomelythe cranky patient was always croaking to the nurses about something beef, bellyache, bitch, bleat, carp, caterwaul, complain, crab, fuss, gripe, grizzle, grouch, grouse, growl, grumble, grump, holler, inveigh, keen, kick, kvetch, maunder(chiefly British), moan, murmur, mutter, nag, repine, scream, squawk, squeal, wail, whimper, whine, whinge(British), yammer, yawp(or yaup), yowl object (to), protest, quarrel (with)cavil, quibblefret, stew, worryblubber, cry, sobbemoan, bewail, deplore, lament kick up a fuss(or kick up a stink) crow, delight, rejoice accept, bear, countenance, endure, take, tolerateapplaud, cheer, commend slangto stop livingI wouldn't go around saying your great-grandmother "croaked" check out, conk (out), decease, demise, depart, die, drop, end, exit, expire, fall, flatline, go, kick in(slang), kick off(slang), part, pass (on), pass away, peg out(chiefly British), perish, pop off, step out, succumb predeceaseconsume, disappear, dry up, fade, fail bite the dust, buy it(or buy the farm), give up the ghost, kick the bucket, snuff it(British) breathe, live come to, revivelingerbe, exist, subsistflourish, prosper, thrive slangto deprive of life"I croaked the old bugger," he bragged carry off, claim, destroy, dispatch, do in, fell, kill, slay, take bump off, butcher, cut down, finish, get, ice(slang), knock off, murder, neutralize, off(slang), put away, rub out, scrag, snuff, take out, waste, whack(slang)annihilate, blot out, decimate, kill off, massacre, mow, slaughter, smiteassassinate, execute, martyr, terminateeuthanize(also euthanatize), put downsuicide do away with, do for(chiefly British), make away with animate raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revivenurture slangto put to death deliberatelyhooligans had croaked the street corner wino just for the hell of it assassinate, bump off, dispatch, do in, execute, get, ice(slang), knock off, liquidate, murder, neutralize, off(slang), put away, rub out, slay, snuff, take out, terminate, whack(slang) blow away, shoot, shoot downblot out, carry off, claim, cut down, destroy, fell, kill, smite, zapbutcher, massacre, mow (down), slaughterannihilate, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, wipe out do away with animate, raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive in the 15th century |