CROAKED Synonyms: 176 Similar and Opposite Words

croaked

verb

past tense of croak

as in complained

to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely the cranky patient was always croaking to the nurses about something

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as in died

slang to stop living I wouldn't go around saying your great-grandmother "croaked"

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as in killed

slang to deprive of life "I croaked the old bugger," he bragged

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as in assassinated

slang to put to death deliberately hooligans had croaked the street corner wino just for the hell of it

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Recent Examples of croaked Depp, in character, croaked at the large crowd assembled on the street. — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 23 July 2026

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Irvine's sister, aunts and cousins attended Romero's court hearing in New York City Thursday and complained to reporters that the former police officer was allegedly receiving special treatment.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Prior Justice Department inspectors general have long complained about the limitations to their authority to investigate certain types of attorney misconduct.

— Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of complained

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Three people died at the scene and a fourth man later died in hospital, regional military administration head Oleksandr Hanzha reported, while over a dozen people were injured.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
The crash came three weeks after 17 people died in an accident along the same highway linking the capital, Nairobi, with the coastal city of Mombasa.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of died

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Two women, ages 50 and 60, were killed and dozens of other people were wounded in a Russian strike on a market in Lozova, in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the regional military administration.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
Samuels was killed just minutes after posting about Wright's abuse on social media.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of killed

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Riehle made it to Broadway in 1986 with a role in the Emily Mann drama Execution of Justice, which centered on the trial of Dan White, who assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978.

— Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
Earlier that year, King had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

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Jean-Pierre took photos of celebrities arriving in flamboyant velvet suits, matching fur coats, towering hats, and golden platform shoes that screamed confidence and pride.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Peralta pumped a fist and screamed joyfully walking off the mound in the sixth after fanning Petey Halpin swinging at a 3-2 changeup.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of screamed

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Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.

— Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of fell

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Both the rocket and the camera were destroyed after crashing into the Earth at a speed of about 340 miles per hour.

— Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Cities outside Paris have been hit hard by the unrest, including Limoges where a fire nearly destroyed the 19th-century city hall.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of destroyed

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During this same time his father had vanished behind the Bamboo Curtain and was almost certainly persecuted, possibly even murdered, by the same Communists that Hoover claimed to be fighting.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
New or expecting mothers are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes.

— Michele Decker, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2026

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