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croak

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5 lettersPronunciation /kɹoʊk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ackorStarts with CEnds with K0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Word origin

From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin.

Used in a sentence

  • The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.
  • “I am so tired,” he croaked. “It’s ageing this nation in Tom Hanks in Castaway years.”
  • “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.”

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