[syn: whine, squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreak]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Creak \Creak\ (kr[=e]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Creaked
(kr[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Creaking.] [OE. creken, prob.
of imitative origin; cf. E. crack, and. D. krieken to
crackle, chirp.]
To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by
the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak.
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The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. --Dryden.
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Doors upon their hinges creaked. --Tennyson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Creak \Creak\, v. t.
To produce a creaking sound with.
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Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Creak \Creak\ (kr[=e]k), n.
The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
--Roget.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
creak
n 1: a squeaking sound; "the creak of the floorboards gave him
away" [syn: creak, creaking]
v 1: make a high-pitched, screeching noise; "The door creaked
when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining
noise" [syn: whine, squeak, screech, creak,
screak, skreak]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "creak":
caterwaul, chirk, chirking, chirp, chirrup, crick, howl, keen,
pipe, screak, scream, screech, shriek, shrill, skirl, skreigh,
squawk, squeak, squeal, stridulate, stridulation, ululate,
ululation, wail, whine, whistle, wrawl, yammer