Synonyms and Antonyms of croak
- the cranky patient was always croaking to the nurses about something
beef, bellyache, bitch, bleat, carp, caterwaul, complain, crab, fuss, gripe, grizzle, grouch, grouse, growl, grumble, grump, holler, inveigh, keen, kick, kvetch, maunder [chiefly British], moan, murmur, mutter, nag, repine, scream, squawk, squeal, wail, whimper, whine, whinge [British], yammer, yawp (or yaup), yowl
- I wouldn't go around saying your great-grandmother "croaked"
bite the dust, buy it (or buy the farm), give up the ghost, kick the bucket, snuff it [British]
- "I croaked the old bugger," he bragged
bump off, butcher, cut down, finish, get, ice [slang], knock off, murder, neutralize, off [slang], put away, rub out, scrag, snuff, take out, waste, whack [slang]
annihilate, blot out, decimate, kill off, massacre, mow, slaughter, smite
assassinate, execute, martyr, terminate
euthanize (also euthanatize), put down