croaketh

Verb

croak (third-person singular simple present croaks, present participle croaking, simple past and past participle croaked)

1. (intransitive) To make a croak sound.
2. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
   • The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
3. (intransitive, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its vocal sound.
4. (intransitive, slang) To die.
   • “I would like to understand before I croak. I would like to understand, and then I’m perfectly fine to shuffle off my mortal coil.”2026, Sebastian Mallaby, “Introduction”, in The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, Penguin, →ISBN
5. (slang, transitive) To kill.
   • He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.
6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
   • Marat […] croaks with such reasonableness.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)

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