croak

FREQ #19987

n. 呱呱叫声, 哇哇声 vi. 呱呱地叫, 发牢骚 vt. 用嘶哑的声音说

发音

US /kɹoʊk/
AU
UK /kɹəʊk/

词形变化

croaks 复数 croaks croaked croaketh croaking croaks 三单 croaking 现在分词 croaked 过去式 croaked 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.

    沙哑的声音

  2. 2.

    The call of a frog or toad.

    呱呱

  3. 3.

    The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.

v.
  1. 1.

    To make a croak sound.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To utter in a low, hoarse voice.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To make its vocal sound.

    呱呱

    不及物
  4. 4.

    To die.

    嗝屁

    俚语
  5. 5.

    To kill.

    俚语 及物

    He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.

    If Wilton croaked the criminal he did a jolly good day's work, and there's an end of it.

  6. 6.

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

  7. 7.

    To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.

    俚语 计算机 工程 数学

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

croaking

上位词 2

vocalization utterance
动词

同义词 10

go die pass exit choke perish murmur expire grumble mutter

上位词 10

turn kick plain complain utter emit let out kvetch let loose quetch

下位词 10

fall drown starve yield abort suffocate succumb stifle asphyxiate buy it

近义相关 9

go die break fail break down give out conk out give way go bad

词源

From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcetung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk-, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g-, from *greh₂-k-, of onomatopoeic origin. See also Swedish kråka, German krächzen, Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also compare Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati. More at crack, crake and craic.

来源：wiktionary