croak

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: croak

1	n v	a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) utter a hoarse sound, like a raven
2	v	pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: croak

Type of:: utterance, vocalization
the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication

Type of:: emit, let loose, let out, utter
express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)

Type of:: complain, kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off
express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness

Synonyms:: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it

: break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad
stop operating or functioning; die
suffer or face the pain of death

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; abort
cease development, die, and be aborted; asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; buy it, pip out
be killed or die;; drown
die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; predecease
die before; die earlier than; famish, starve
die of food deprivation; fall
die, as in battle or in a hunt; succumb, yield
be fatally overwhelmed; strangle
die from strangulation

Type of:: change state, turn
undergo a transformation or a change of position or action

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