croaked

past tense of croak
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for croaked
Verb
  • Prosecutors describe the laws as an invaluable tool against would-be attackers, but civil liberties groups have long complained of overreach.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement The panel has already obtained roughly 33,000 pages of records from the Justice Department, though Democrats have complained those disclosures contained little new information.
    Nik Popli, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Osbourne, who died July 22 at 76 after a heart attack, famously bit the head off a bat during a solo performance.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Julie Henneberry, a Bay View woman whose firefighter father died on 9/11, is sharing her story publicly for the first time.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • André Marques was killed when the tram derailed during evening rush hour in Lisbon, Portugal and went careening into a building, Sitra (Transport Workers' Union) announced this afternoon.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • No children were among the 15 killed.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That ornery cleric was Moqtada al-Sadr, the son of Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, a grand ayatollah assassinated almost certainly by Saddam’s order in 1999.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Israel has assassinated many of Hamas’ top military and political leadership.
    Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Steve Jobs screamed from time to time as self-therapy.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The symbolism is a little over-the-top if this is the case, but then again, this is a show for teens based on a YA novel, also for teens, and sometimes the symbolism needs to be screamed in ALL CAPS.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • When a mother tree is felled, the survival rate of many of its seedlings may be drastically reduced, a process not unlike the reciprocal feedback loop of Yggdrasill, whose deterioration in response to discord in the nine realms spells cosmic collapse.
    Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
  • There are also beautifully observed moments toward the end with Dorotea and Riccardo; and a moving reckoning with death when Mariano’s favorite horse, a stallion named Elvis, is felled by illness and the president refuses to end his suffering by having the animal put to sleep.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Alternatively, a star being ripped apart in TDE could produce a day-long GRB, but this scenario fails to replicate other properties of the GRB 250702B, an explosion that would require a very unusual star being destroyed by an even stranger black hole.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Hadid was commissioned to design it for a fire brigade on the Vitra Campus after a major 1981 fire destroyed most of the complex, which originally consisted of factory buildings but is now a collection of contemporary design and architecture showrooms.
    Mae Hamilton, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Both Johnson’s and Pritzker’s comments came before Labor Day weekend in Chicago, when there were 58 people shot and eight murdered.
    Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In Britain, for example, a man named Kyle Clifford murdered three members of the same family, all women, one of whom was his ex-girlfriend.
    Will Carless, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Croaked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/croaked. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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