creak

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

creak [creak creaks creaked creaking] verb, noun BrE [kriːk] NAmE [kriːk]
verb intransitive
to make the sound that a door sometimes makes when you open it or that a wooden floor sometimes makes when you step on it
•She heard a floorboard creak upstairs.
•a creaking bed/gate/stair
•The table creaked and groaned under the weight.
•The timbers creaked as the boat set sail.
•+ adj. The door creaked open.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘croak’): imitative.

Example Bank:
•He stood up, his bones creaking.
•The chair creaked under his weight.
•The door creaked open an inch.
•The ice creaked and groaned underfoot.
•The stairs creaked as I crept down them.
•The stairs creaked as she went up them.
Idiom: ↑creak under the strain
 
noun countable (also creak·ing uncountable, countable)
a sound, for example that sometimes made by a door when it opens or shuts, or by a wooden floor when you step on it
•the creak/creaking of the door
•Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along the dark corridors.

Word Origin:
Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘croak’): imitative.

Example Bank:
•The gate swung open with a creak.

 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  creaking, whine, squeak, screech, screak, skreak