croak
krohk
- 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
- So they croak and whisper in broken sentences mainly about the families they do not expect to see again.
- Their Puritan gods have retreated to unawesome, half-deserted churches, where beaten clergymen, sizing up the businessman congregations, croak about an improbable Christ who .
- They oink, turn from green to pink and croak.