creaked
past simple and past participle ofcreak
creak
verb[I]
uk/kriːk/us/kriːk/When adoor,floorboard, etc. creaks, it makes alonglowsoundwhen itmovesor ismoved:
Thedoorcreaked onitshinges.
Iheardthefloorboardscreak as hecreptcloser.
Synonym
squeak
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screechverb
Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- babble
- blaze
- bong
- chuff
- clatter
- click away
- clicker
- clinking
- clunk
- crump
- growl
- gunshot
- hiss
- jangling
- plunk
- scrunch
- sonic boom
- tick
- white noise
- whoosh
Examplesofcreaked
creaked
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The machinery might well havecreakedand groaned, but printers and authors could still have felt intimidated by its operation.
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Windmills - part of the landscape of most early modern towns -creakedas they turned and their canvas sails flapped.
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Its machinery hascreakeda great deal, but it has moved, and moved with effect.
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They are simple improvements of a type that we never get around to—like mending the staircase that alwayscreakedin grandad's day.
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Let me admit that it hascreakedin the past.
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It hascreakedin lots of respects and in a number of ways.
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Our machine, however, hascreakedin another place, where, perhaps, it would not be expected to creak.
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The hinges of the casecreaked.
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Over the years the teachers' bargaining machinery has certainlycreakedat the joints from time to time, but that in no way justifies sweeping aside the whole machinery.
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The door thencreakedand slammed shut, followed by a repeat of the show's ominous theme music.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The three-floor structure was framed with large wooden posts and beams, supporting massive floor planks whichcreakedand groaned underfoot.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The boys feared the groaning of the dying, and when the stairscreaked, we knew why - they were bearing out the dead.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These originally were not universally accepted because miners complained that whereas timber supportscreakedwhen they began to break, which acted as a warning, steel supports did not.
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- public policy
- public-policy
- public-private
- public-private
- public-private partnership
- public-private-partnership
- public procurement
- public-procurement
- public property
- public-property
- public prosecutor
- public-prosecutor
- public protest
- public protest
- public-purse
- public radio
- public rally
- public realm
- public recognition
- public record
- public relation
- public relations
- run-go-deep
- run/go like clockwork
- run-go-like-clockwork