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croaksverbpresent tense third-person singular of croak to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomelythe cranky patient was always croaking to the nurses about something beefs, bellyaches, bitches, bleats, carps, caterwauls, complains, crabs, fusses, gripes, grizzles, grouches, grouses, growls, grumbles, grumps, hollers, inveighs, keens, kicks, kvetches, maunders(chiefly British), moans, murmurs, mutters, nags, repines, screams, squawks, squeals, wails, whimpers, whines, whinges(British), yammers, yawps(or yaups), yowls objects (to), protests, quarrels (with)cavils, quibblesfrets, stews, worriesblubbers, cries, sobsbemoans, bewails, deplores, laments kicks up a fuss crows, delights, rejoices accepts, bears, countenances, endures, takes, toleratesapplauds, cheers, commends slangto stop livingI wouldn't go around saying your great-grandmother "croaked" checks out, conks (out), deceases, demises, departs, dies, drops, ends, exits, expires, falls, flatlines, goes, kicks in(slang), kicks off(slang), parts, passes away, passes (on), pegs out(chiefly British), perishes, pops off, steps out, succumbs predeceasesconsumes, disappears, dries up, fades, fails bites the dust, buys it(or buys the farm), gives up the ghost, kicks the bucket, snuffs it(British) breathes, lives comes to, reviveslingersexists, is, subsistsflourishes, prospers, thrives slangto deprive of life"I croaked the old bugger," he bragged carries off, claims, destroys, dispatches, does in, fells, kills, slays, takes bumps off, butchers, cuts down, finishes, gets, ices(slang), knocks off, murders, neutralizes, offs(slang), puts away, rubs out, scrags, snuffs, takes out, wastes, whacks(slang)annihilates, blots out, decimates, kills off, massacres, mows, slaughters, smitesassassinates, executes, martyrs, terminateseuthanizes(also euthanatizes), puts downsuicides does away with, does for(chiefly British), makes away with animates raises, restores, resurrects, resuscitates, revivesnurtures slangto put to death deliberatelyhooligans had croaked the street corner wino just for the hell of it assassinates, bumps off, dispatches, does in, executes, gets, ices(slang), knocks off, liquidates, murders, neutralizes, offs(slang), puts away, rubs out, slays, snuffs, takes out, terminates, whacks(slang) blows away, shoots, shoots downblots out, carries off, claims, cuts down, destroys, fells, kills, smites, zapsbutchers, massacres, mows (down), slaughtersannihilates, eliminates, eradicates, exterminates, wipes out does away with animates, raises, restores, resurrects, resuscitates, revives |