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croak — Everyday, meaning 1: (verb) When a frog or crow croaks, it makes a deep, rough sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) When a person croaks, they speak in a deep, rough voice, for example because of a sore throat.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A croak is that rough sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (slang) To croak means to die; it is a joking, not polite, way to say it.↗ Example: The frogs croaked loudly all night by the pond.↗ · «I've lost my voice,» she croaked.↗ · A crow croaked from the top of the tree.↗ · We heard a croak from under the lily pad.↗ · He could only croak out a whisper after the football match.↗ · (slang) In the cartoon, the villain says, «If I don't get water, I'll croak!»↗ · Male frogs croak to call females.↗ · Then some frogs began to croak in the marsh.↗

croaked — Everyday, meaning 1: (literal) made a deep rough sound, like a frog or a person with a sore throat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (slang, euphemism) died.↗ Example: The frogs croaked all night by the pond.↗ · «Water,» he croaked, after the long walk.↗ · In the film, the villain croaked at the end.↗ · Gossip: «Did you hear the old miser croaked?»↗ · My laptop croaked just before I saved my essay.↗ · The raven croaked from the tree.↗ · The raven flew and croaked--but too soon.↗

croaky — Everyday, meaning 1: Sounding rough, low and hoarse, especially because of a sore throat or a cold.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sounding like the croak of a frog or crow.↗ Example: I've got a cold and my voice is all croaky.↗ · After cheering at the match, Dad was croaky for two days.↗ · "Who's there?" asked a croaky voice.↗ · The frog gave a croaky call from the pond.↗ · She sounded croaky on the phone, so I knew she was ill.↗ · Drink some warm honey and lemon for your croaky throat.↗ · ‘Are you Hannah the herb seller?’ she asked in a croaky voice as her head shook to and fro.↗

crock — Everyday, meaning 1: A crock is a large pot of thick brown clay, used in the kitchen to keep food such as butter, or to store things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, British) «A load of crock» means rubbish or nonsense.↗ Example: «How much butter will it take to fill your crock?»↗ · She put the salted butter into the crock.↗ · The old crock stood by the door.↗

crockery — Everyday, meaning 1: Crockery is plates, cups, bowls and dishes made of baked clay or china.↗ Example: Then he stumbled against a piece of broken crockery.↗ · She washed the crockery after supper.↗ · The crockery is stacked on the kitchen shelf.↗

crocodile — Everyday, meaning 1: A large reptile with a long body, thick scaly skin, a long mouth with many sharp teeth and a powerful tail; it lives in rivers and swamps in hot countries.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK) A long line of children walking in pairs.↗ Example: A crocodile lay still in the muddy river.↗ · Crocodiles can stay underwater for a long time.↗ · In northern Australia, never swim where there are crocodile warning signs.↗ · The class walked to the museum in a crocodile.↗ · Crocodiles lay their eggs in nests on land.↗ · He cried crocodile tears, but he wasn't really sad.↗ · A crocodile's skin is covered in tough scales.↗ · Did you ever see so many crocodiles?”↗ · and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon.↗ (Torah LEV.11.30, JPS 1917)↗

crocodilian — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) A crocodilian is any animal in the crocodile family group: crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Crocodilian (adjective) means like a crocodile or to do with crocodiles.↗ Example: Alligators and crocodiles are both crocodilians.↗ · Crocodilians lay eggs in nests on land.↗ · Crocodilians have been around since the time of the dinosaurs.↗ · The gharial is a crocodilian with a long, thin snout.↗ · The villain gave a crocodilian smile.↗ · In Northern Australia, signs warn swimmers about crocodilians in the rivers.↗

crocus — Everyday, meaning 1: A small flower that grows from a bulb-like corm and comes up early in spring, often purple, yellow or white, shaped like a cup.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A kind of crocus that flowers in autumn gives saffron, a spice made from its red threads.↗ Example: The first crocuses were peeping through the snow.↗ · We planted crocus bulbs in the school garden in autumn.↗ · A bee buzzed into a purple crocus.↗ · Saffron comes from a special crocus.↗ · The park lawn was covered in yellow and white crocuses.↗ · Crocuses close their petals when it is cloudy.↗ · It was in the early spring, when the crocus and the snowdrop were in full bloom.↗

croissant — Everyday, meaning 1: A soft, flaky, buttery bread roll shaped like a crescent (a curved moon), first made famous in France and eaten for breakfast.↗ In French, croissant also means crescent or growing.↗ Example: I had a warm croissant with jam for breakfast.↗ · The croissant was so flaky it left crumbs everywhere.↗ · In Paris we bought croissants from a bakery.↗ · Croissants are made with lots of butter.↗ · Can I have a chocolate croissant, please?↗ · Croissant means crescent in French because of its shape.↗

crone — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use, in fairy tales) An old woman, often ugly, spiteful or wise, who is seen as frightening.↗ Example: «Be off, old crone!» he replied.↗ · «That doesn't look well,» says the old crone.↗ · The old crone did not like this either.↗

crook — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A dishonest person, especially a criminal or cheat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A shepherd's long stick with a hook at the top.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The inside of a bent part of your body, such as «the crook of your arm».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To bend your finger or arm into a hook shape: «She crooked her finger to call me over.».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (Australia, NZ, informal) Ill or unwell: «I'm feeling crook.».↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (Australia, NZ, informal) Bad, broken or not working well; «go crook at someone» means to get angry with them.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: In the phrase “by hook or by crook”, crook means any means at all, fair or not.↗ Example: The police caught the crook who stole the bikes.↗ · The shepherd guided the sheep with his crook.↗ · The baby slept in the crook of her arm.↗ · She crooked her finger and called him over.↗ · (Australia) I felt crook all weekend, so I missed footy.↗ · (Australia) Mum went crook at us for tracking mud through the house.↗ · That shop is run by crooks — the prices are a rip-off.↗ · We'll finish this model by hook or by crook.↗ · “If we cannot get in by hook, we will get in by crook,” said Mongan.↗ · or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed; (Torah LEV.21.20, JPS 1917)↗

crooked — Everyday, meaning 1: Crooked means not straight; bent, twisted or uneven.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A crooked person is dishonest and cheats people.↗ Example: The picture is hanging crooked on the wall.↗ · Use a ruler so your lines are not crooked.↗ · He has a crooked tooth at the front.↗ · She gave a crooked smile.↗ · The path was narrow and crooked.↗ · The crooked shopkeeper sold fake watches.↗ · There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile.↗ · And look, this one is quite crooked!↗ · No; His children's is the blemish; a generation crooked and perverse.↗ (Torah DEU.32.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths; (Writings PRO.2.15, JPS 1917)↗ · He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.↗ (Writings LAM.3.9, JPS 1917)↗ · That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.↗ (Writings ECC.1.15, JPS 1917)↗

crookedly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that is not straight, bent or twisted, or not level.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rare) In a dishonest way.↗ Example: The picture hung crookedly on the wall.↗ · He smiled crookedly and winked.↗ · My little sister wrote her name crookedly across the page.↗ · The old fence leaned crookedly in the wind.↗ · His tie was knotted crookedly.↗ · Use a ruler so the line doesn't come out crookedly.↗ · The tooth grew in crookedly, so she needed a brace.↗

crooning — Everyday, meaning 1: To croon is to sing or hum softly and gently, often to a baby or while working.↗ Example: The mother was crooning to her baby.↗ · The child was crooning happily in the morning sunlight.↗ · He hummed and crooned as he worked the wood.↗

crop — Everyday, meaning 1: A crop is a plant grown in large amounts by farmers, like wheat, rice, potatoes or apples.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A crop is the amount of such a plant gathered in one season.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To crop a picture is to cut off the edges you do not want.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To crop hair is to cut it very short.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To crop can also mean to bite off and eat grass or leaves, as animals do.↗ Example: Wheat and corn are important crops.↗ · The farmers harvest their crops in autumn.↗ · The dry summer ruined the crop.↗ · Crop the photo so only your face shows.↗ · Some problems cropped up on our trip.↗ · Rice is the main crop in many parts of Asia.↗ · We had a big crop of tomatoes this year.↗ · Her hair was cropped short for summer.↗ · Brother, he crops in the jungle still.↗ · And he shall take away its crop with the feathers thereof, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.↗ (Torah LEV.1.16, JPS 1917)↗ · According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee.↗ (Torah LEV.25.15, JPS 1917)↗ · According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of crops doth he sell unto thee.↗ (Torah LEV.25.16, JPS 1917)↗

cropped — Everyday, meaning 1: Cropped is the past form of crop: to cut something short, like hair or grass, or to cut off the edges of a picture.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Cropped clothes are cut short on purpose, such as a cropped top or cropped trousers.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Cropped hair is cut very short.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) If something cropped up, it appeared or happened suddenly, without being expected.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Cropped can also mean bitten short by an animal eating grass, as a horse cropped the turf.↗ Example: I cropped the photo so only my face showed.↗ · She wore a cropped denim jacket.↗ · His hair was cropped short for summer.↗ · The sheep cropped the grass very close.↗ · A problem cropped up, so we were late.↗ · The field was cropped with wheat last year.↗ · Your name cropped up when we were talking about the play.↗ · Then he saw under a tree and waited, while his horse cropped the green turf.↗ · He cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.↗ (Prophets EZK.17.4, JPS 1917)↗

cropper — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, UK, Australia, NZ) Come a cropper: to fall over badly, or to fail badly: he came a cropper on his bike.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A plant that gives a crop: a good cropper (a plant that produces a lot).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US, history) A sharecropper: a farmer who works land and pays the owner with part of the crop.↗ Example: He raced down the hill and came a cropper at the bottom.↗ · (informal) The team came a cropper in the final and lost 5–0.↗ · Watch out for ice or you'll come a cropper.↗ · This apple tree is a heavy cropper — we picked 200 apples.↗ · The horse came a cropper at the last fence.↗ · These tomatoes are good croppers.↗

croquet — Everyday, meaning 1: A lawn game in which players hit wooden balls with long-handled wooden mallets through small metal hoops stuck in the grass.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, rare) To knock another player's ball away by hitting your own ball against it.↗ Example: We played croquet on Grandpa's lawn after lunch.↗ · Alice's flamingo kept twisting round to look at her instead of hitting the hedgehog.↗ · Hit the ball through the hoop with the mallet.↗ · The croquet club meets every Saturday in summer.↗ · The Queen played croquet with live hedgehogs.↗ · It is hard to play croquet when the lawn is bumpy.↗ · The soldiers had to bend over to be the croquet hoops.↗

croquette — Everyday, meaning 1: A croquette is a small roll or ball of mashed potato, meat, fish or vegetables, covered in breadcrumbs and fried.↗ Example: We had potato croquettes with our roast dinner.↗ · The croquettes were crispy outside and soft inside.↗ · Mum made fish croquettes from leftover salmon.↗ · In Spain we tried ham croquettes as tapas.↗ · The school menu had vegetable croquettes on Friday.↗ · Let the croquettes cool a bit — the middle is very hot.↗

cross — Everyday, meaning 1: To cross is to go from one side to the other, like across a road, river or bridge.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A cross is a mark like × or +.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To cross out is to draw a line through a word or number.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Cross (adjective) means angry.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To cross your arms or legs is to put one over the other.↗ Example: It takes 3 minutes to cross the bridge.↗ · The ferry crosses the river 6 times a day.↗ · Cross out the even numbers.↗ · They crossed 2 streets to reach school.↗ · Look both ways before you cross.↗ · Put a cross next to wrong answers.↗ · Mum was cross because I was late.↗ · Cross your fingers for good luck.↗ · He even remembered the cross old cook.↗

crossbar — Everyday, meaning 1: A crossbar is a bar that goes across between two upright posts, such as the top bar of a goal in football or hockey.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A crossbar is also the bar between the seat and the handlebars of a bicycle.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In sports like the high jump or pole vault, the crossbar is the bar the jumper must go over.↗ Example: The ball hit the crossbar and bounced out.↗ · She jumped cleanly over the crossbar.↗ · His shot went over the crossbar.↗ · My bike has a low crossbar so I can get on easily.↗ · Never give a friend a ride on your crossbar.↗ · The rugby ball must go over the crossbar to score.↗