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croakingadjective harsh and dry in sounda croaking voice from smoking too many cigarettes coarse, croaky, grating, gravel, gravelly, gruff, hoarse, husky, rasping, raspy, rusty, scratchy, throaty growling, growly, gutturalabrasive, cacophonous, discordant, grinding, jarring, rough, scraping, scratchingcawing, raucous, screeching, squawking, stridentchoked, cracked, strained, strangleddissonant, inharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical gentle, gliding, golden, liquid, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, soothing, sweet, tendersatiny, silken, smooth, soft, velvetyeuphonious, lyric, lyrical, melodic, melodious, musical croakingverbpresent participle of croakto express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomelythe cranky patient was always croaking to the nurses about something beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bleating, carping, caterwauling, complaining, crabbing, fussing, griping, grizzling, grouching, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumping, hollering, inveighing, keening, kicking, kvetching, maundering(chiefly British), moaning, murmuring, muttering, nagging, repining, screaming, squawking, squealing, wailing, whimpering, whinging(or whingeing, British), whining, yammering, yawping(or yauping), yowling objecting (to), protesting, quarreling (with)(or quarrelling (with))caviling(or cavilling), quibblingfretting, stewing, worryingblubbering, crying, sobbingbemoaning, bewailing, deploring, lamenting kicking up a fuss crowing, delighting, rejoicing accepting, bearing, countenancing, enduring, taking, toleratingapplauding, cheering, commending slangto stop livingI wouldn't go around saying your great-grandmother "croaked" checking out, conking (out), deceasing, demising, departing, dropping, dying, ending, exiting, expiring, falling, flatlining, going, kicking in(slang), kicking off(slang), parting, passing away, passing (on), pegging out(chiefly British), perishing, popping off, stepping out, succumbing predeceasingconsuming, disappearing, drying up, fading, failing biting the dust, buying it(or buying the farm), giving up the ghost, kicking the bucket, snuffing it(British) breathing, living coming to, revivinglingeringbeing, existing, subsistingflourishing, prospering, thriving slangto deprive of life"I croaked the old bugger," he bragged carrying off, claiming, destroying, dispatching, doing in, felling, killing, slaying, taking bumping off, butchering, cutting down, finishing, getting, icing(slang), knocking off, murdering, neutralizing, offing(slang), putting away, rubbing out, scragging, snuffing, taking out, wasting, whacking(slang)annihilating, blotting out, decimating, killing off, massacring, mowing, slaughtering, smitingassassinating, executing, martyring, terminatingeuthanizing(also euthanatizing), putting downsuiciding doing away with, doing for(chiefly British), making away with animating raising, restoring, resurrecting, resuscitating, revivingnurturing slangto put to death deliberatelyhooligans had croaked the street corner wino just for the hell of it assassinating, bumping off, dispatching, doing in, executing, getting, icing(slang), knocking off, liquidating, murdering, neutralizing, offing(slang), putting away, rubbing out, slaying, snuffing, taking out, terminating, whacking(slang) blowing away, shooting, shooting downblotting out, carrying off, claiming, cutting down, destroying, felling, killing, smiting, zappingbutchering, massacring, mowing (down), slaughteringannihilating, eliminating, eradicating, exterminating, wiping out doing away with animating, raising, restoring, resurrecting, resuscitating, reviving |