creaking
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈkriːkɪŋ/
:
crujido
- Then they pushed open the creaking doors and stumbled out of the van.
- a creaking door
- hear the creaking
- a creaking sound
There's no creaking, rattling, jiggling of stuff inside the car.
- There's no creaking, rattling, jiggling of stuff inside the car.
- And so the engineering microphone is designed to hear the creaking and the cracking and the moving.
- Listen, OK, maybe it's just the creaking, but I swear there's something happening in that direction.
Examples
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Crushed grass, tilted boats, creaking beds, wrinkled sheets, fallen pillows, scattered clothes.
Fiction book (1996) -
Then he heard footsteps and the creaking of the key in the lock.
Fiction book (1996) -
Ed has never heard such loud creaking; the beds seem to moan and cry out in the night.
Fiction book (1996) -
I stepped onto its creaking porch and knocked on a crude screen door.
Fiction book (1990) -
Had he heard only the creaking of the trees and water dripping from the eaves?
Fiction book (1990) -
Michael's father walked up the creaking stairs, followed by Michael and Alex.
Fiction book (1991) -
As the orphans' shuffling feet whispered to a halt, Casimir closed the creaking door behind them.
Fiction book (1992) -
Zaire did not mind sharing the solitude she found on Nanna Belle's creaking porch with Joe Colby.
Fiction book (1993) -
Wincing at the creaking of the rusty iron hinges, Mont pushed on the lattice grate.
Fiction book (1992) -
At one, the dominant sound was the creaking of a door left blowing in the dry wind.
Synonyms
31
2.7
A high, squeaking sound made when a door or floorboard moves
Antonyms
How Creaky
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Creaking comes from the simple sound word creak, made to copy the long, groaning noise of old wood, doors, or stairs, much like squeak copies a short, sharp sound. So, creaking means that long, high or groaning noise you hear when something is moved or under strain.