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• n  a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)
• v  pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
• v  utter a hoarse sound, like a raven
• v  make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath

• You get, to quote biologist Colin Stewart, "embryos rather ignominiously dying (croaking!) around the tadpole stage.
• They're after Rana catesbeiana the North American bullfrog introduced to France in 1968 by a French aviator who liked the idea of the critters croaking in his garden.
• The crack of shots often pierces the darkness, the echoes of gunfire melting into the chorus of croaking frogs.

• croak
• die
• decease
• perish
• go
• exit
• pass away
• expire
• pass
• kick the bucket
• cash in one's chips
• buy the farm
• conk
• give-up the ghost
• drop dead
• pop off
• choke
• snuff it
• cronk
• murmur
• mutter
• grumble
• gnarl

• be_born

News & Articles

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• Naturally Speaking: Remembering a little Frog Fry Magic
  I was reminded of one of the finest wild food delicacies the other day while trying to find somekeepe r bluegills at Hickory Grove Lake. No, it wasn’t bluegill fillets even though they are pretty good, too. It was the distant croaking of a single bull frog that triggered some fond memories. I served an internship with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Upper Mississippi Wildlife Refuge during ...
  July 13, 2013 - The Ames Tribune