| 单词 | creak |
| 释义 | creak (once / 755 pages) vn To creak is to make a high, groaning sound, like a rusty gate swinging shut. The old, worn floorboards in your house might creak as you walk down the hall. Old doors and gates creak as they open, and tree branches creak as they blow around in very heavy wind. The sound itself is also a creak: "The creak of the front door in the silent house made them jump." In the 14th century, to creak was to "utter a harsh cry," and soon afterward it came to mean the same noise made by an object. Creak is imitative — the word itself sounds like a creak. WORD FAMILYcreak: creaked, creaking, creaks, creaky+/creaking: creakings/creaky: creakily USAGE EXAMPLESThe maple floorboards were bubbled, and my twelve-year-old stride activated a creak. Salon(Dec 28, 2016) He settled down to his hamburger and milkshake and a comforting pile of press clippings about himself when the door creaked open. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) Italian banks are creaking under the weight of 360 billion euros of bad loans - a third of the euro zone's total - following the financial crisis. Reuters(Dec 23, 2016) 1v make a high-pitched, screeching noise The door creaked when I opened it slowly Syn|Hyper screak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine make noise, noise, resound emit a noise 2n a squeaking sound the creak of the floorboards gave him away Syn|Hyper creaking noise sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) |
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