Croaking

Word CROAKING
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Definitions and meanings of "Croaking"

What do we mean by croaking?

To make a croak.

To utter in a low, hoarse voice.

(of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry.

To die.

To kill someone or something.

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

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The word "croaking" in example sentences

It made them strong and willful, and it made them blind and disfigured, and it spurred them to sing strange guttural songs in croaking voices that haunted the American night. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Of course, those who are familiar with our ways of getting things done would understand that a good deal of the croaking is a means of getting our little army increased, or at least preventing its being diminished. ❋ Various (N/A)

Actually what this book is a catalog of "croaking". ❋ Jmnlman (2006)

But if protests were made to McNaghten - and they were, especially by active men like Broadfoot - they were dismissed as "croaking", and it was pointed out sharply that the army was unlikely to be called on to fight anyway. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1969)

What "croaking" meant Jamie did not in the least know, but he suspected that it referred to something not in the least pleasant for himself. ❋ Dillon Wallace (1901)

With a queer kind of croaking shriek, the memory of which disturbs my sleep even now occasionally, but which I intended to be a yell of rejoicing, I staggered to my feet, stumbled aft to the cockpit, and half leaped, half tumbled into it. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"He used to make light of what he termed my" croaking "and say I need have no fears for him; and I believe he spoke from the sincerity of his good intentions; he thought all others as sincere and open-hearted as himself, and happy had it been for him if he had found them so. ❋ Harriet S. Caswell (N/A)

"He used to make light of what he termed my" croaking "and say I need have no fears of him; and I believe he spoke from the sincerity of his good intentions; he thought all others as sincere and open-hearted as himself, and happy had it been for him if he had found them so. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Everywhere you turn there are things to see, like the markets on Stockton Street that have all manner of foods still swimming, clucking and croaking. ❋ AP (2011)

But assuming no-one shuts me in a tradesman's cupboard, or makes me use a pallet lift as 'access' I'll be speaking ok, croaking at the TUC seminar on monday afternoon.... ❋ Unknown (2012)

In the end, I had to perform emergency surgery on the association and imagine him bobbing up and down in a dill salad, croaking away in his inimitable style. ❋ Unknown (2012)

It's been at least seven years since he's heard the melodic croaking. ❋ The Center For Public Integrity (2011)

An explosion of wings and croaking squawks jerked her back to reality with the heart-stopping force of a gunshot. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

I heard a heavy croaking when I went to the garage, so close it sounded in the garage. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

The resident great horned owls disappeared the next year and a pair of barn owls moved onto the island to make the nights hideous with their croaking calls. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

The next morning, I heard croaking outside my tree-house-like cabin at the Omega Jungle Lodge. ❋ Nicholas Gill (2011)

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