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croaks

croaks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of croak.

croaks is the plural of croak.

Meaning of croak

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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Proper noun capitalized: Croaks

Croaks

  1. (plural) plural of Croak

Questions about croaks

What is croaks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Croaks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of croak.
What part of speech is croaks?
Croaks is a proper noun.

Words near croaks in the dictionary

  1. croaking gourami
  2. croaking gouramis
  3. croakingly
  4. croakings
  5. croakless
  6. croaks
  7. croaky
  8. Croall
  9. Croalls
  10. Croasdale
  11. Croat

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