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crool

/kɹuːl/

crool verb: to murmur or mutter. Also the alternative spelling of cruel.

Verb

crool (third-person singular simple present crools, present participle crooling, simple past and past participle crooled)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To murmur or mutter.
    • I […] lay down to rest / Upon a grassy hillock, o'er which bowed / A bush in which some late bird kept her nest. / And, as she crooled, I slept.1873, Thomas Cooper, The Paradise of Martyrs

Also used as

crool is also the alternative spelling of cruel.

Forms of crool

Verb
third-person singular presentcrools
present participlecrooling
past participlecrooled
pastcrooled
Adjective
comparativecrooler
superlativecroolest

Origin of crool

Imitative.

Orthographic variant, meant to indicate uneducated spelling of monosyllabic pronunciation, of cruel.

Words that rhyme with crool

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Questions about crool

What does crool mean?
Crool means to murmur or mutter.
What part of speech is crool?
Crool is a verb.
How do you pronounce crool?
Crool is pronounced /kɹuːl/.
What is the past tense of crool?
The past tense of crool is crooled.

Words near crool in the dictionary

  1. Crookston
  2. Crookstons
  3. Crookstown
  4. Crookton
  5. Crookwell
  6. crool
  7. crooled
  8. crooler
  9. croolest
  10. crooling
  11. crools

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