To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
To kill someone or something.
To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
To die.
To make a croak.
To make its sound.
The call of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.