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Craked vs Croaked - What's the difference?

craked | croaked |

As verbs the difference between craked and croaked

is that craked is (crake) while croaked is (croak).

craked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (crake)

    • crake

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Crake

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , itself onomatopoeic. (Rallidae)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
    • Derived terms
    * Baillon's crake * brown crake * Colombian crake * corncrake * cracker * water crake

    Verb

    (crak)
  • To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.

    • Etymology 2

    See crack

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A crack; a boast.

    • Verb

    (crak)
  • (obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
  • * The Mirror for Magistrates
    • Each man may crake of that which was his own.

    Anagrams

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    croaked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (croak)

    • croak

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
  • The cry of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a croak.
  • To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The raven himself is hoarse, / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.
  • (of a frog) To make its cry.
  • (of a raven) To make its cry.
  • (slang) To die.
  • (slang) To kill someone or something.
    • He'd seen my face, so I had to croak him.
  • To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
  • * Carlyle
    • Marat croaks with reasonableness.