Meaning

7 senses
  1. (intransitive)To make a croak sound.

    krächzen

    хрипе́тьxripétʹ

  2. (transitive)To utter in a low, hoarse voice.

    utter a hoarse sound, like a raven

  3. (intransitive)To make its vocal sound.

    quaken

    ква́катьkvákatʹ

    ква́катиkvákaty

  4. (intransitive, slang)To die.

    krepieren, abkratzen

    сдыха́тьsdyxátʹ, сдо́хнутьsdóxnutʹ

    ґи́ґнутиgýgnuty, здиха́тиzdyxáty, здо́хнутиzdóxnuty

  5. (slang, transitive)To kill.

    He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.

    замочи́тьzamočítʹ, ко́кнутьkóknutʹ, завали́тьzavalítʹ

  6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

  7. (slang)To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.

Examples

27 sentences
  1. Can you hear the frogs croaking?

    ruСлышишь, как квакают лягушки?

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  2. I've never heard a frog croak.

    ruЯ никогда не слышал, как квакает лягушка.

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  3. Can you hear frogs croaking?

    ruСлышишь, как лягушки квакают?

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  4. The sound of crickets chirping and frogs croaking lulls me to sleep.

    Сюрчання цвіркунів та квакання жаб мене заколисують.

    ruСтрекотание сверчков и кваканье лягушек меня усыпляют.

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  5. Since there are rice paddies near my house, I often hear frogs croaking all night long this time of year.

    ruИз-за того, что рядом с моим домом есть рисовые поля, я в это время года часто всю ночь слышу лягушачье кваканье.

    deWegen der Reisfelder in der Nähe meines Hauses kann ich zu dieser Jahreszeit oft die ganze Nacht lang die Frösche quaken hören.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
of a frog, to make its sound:
slang: to die:
Русский
By meaning 4
to make a croak:
of a frog, to make its sound:
slang: to die:
slang: to kill:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to make a croak:
of a frog, to make its sound:
slang: to die:

Origin

From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation

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.

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Forms

croaks, croaking, croaked, croaked
Base formcroak · to croak
3rd person singularcroaks
Present participlecroaking
Past simplecroaked
Past participlecroaked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycroak
he, she, itcroaks

Past simpleLesson

all personscroaked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave croaked
he, she, ithas croaked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill croak

Synonyms

22 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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