| Front | creak |
|---|---|
| Back | 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 itShe 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.ˌcreak under the ˈstrainif a system or service creaks under the strain, it cannot deal effectively with all the things it is expected to do or provide 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 itthe creak/creaking of the door Distant creaks and groans echoed eerily along the dark corridors. |
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