croaked

«croaked» in Mova's school dictionary: made a deep rough sound, like a frog or a person with a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (croak, croaks, croaked, croaking)

meaning for a pupil

1) (literal) made a deep rough sound, like a frog or a person with a sore throat. tree →

2) (slang, euphemism) died. tree →

sense in the lessons

The «died» sense is rough, jokey slang used in crime stories, films and dark humour; never polite. All regions.

examples

• The frogs croaked all night by the pond. tree →
• «Water,» he croaked, after the long walk. tree →
• In the film, the villain croaked at the end. tree →
• Gossip: «Did you hear the old miser croaked?» tree →
• My laptop croaked just before I saved my essay. tree →
• The raven croaked from the tree. tree →
• The raven flew and croaked--but too soon. tree →

note

Trap: frogs croaking is literal and nice. Using «croaked» for a real death is disrespectful.

In the corpora

• "Croaked" means died; it is rough slang.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «croaked» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.