creaked
- 1Past tense and past participle of creak.
The floorboards creaked as he tiptoed across the dark hallway.
The rusty gate creaked open whenever the wind picked up.
Note
A regular past form, so the simple past and the participle share one spelling: the floor creaked, the floor has creaked. Usually it takes no object and describes a sound something makes by itself. Less often it takes one, as when someone creaked a door open. It also carries the figurative sense of straining under age or load: an old system creaked along, a tired team creaked through the final minutes.
She creaked the cellar door open and peered into the dark.
By the last quarter the aging defense creaked under the pressure.
creaked is a form of creak
creak, verb: To make a prolonged, sharp grating or squeaking sound, as when hard surfaces rub against each other. Full entry
- Spelling
- creak → creaked: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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