Nearby Words
creak [kreek] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
creak [kreek]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: grind, grate with high noise
Synonyms: chirr, crepitate, groan, rasp, scrape, scratch, screech, sound, squeak, squeal
Main Entry: squeak
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make sharp, high-pitched sound
Synonyms: cheep, creak, cry, grate, peep, pipe, scream, screech, scritch, shrill, sing, sound, squeal, talk, whine, yelp
Main Entry: squeal
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Definition: yell in a loud and high-pitched manner
Synonyms: bleat, cheep, creak, grate, howl, peep, rasp, scream, scream bloody murder, screech, shout, shriek, shrill, squawk, wail, yelp, yip, yowl
Example Sentences
  • As you get older your bones start to creak when it gets cold.
  • Now the objects in your room-the bed lamps, the clock, the shutters-begin to rattle and creak in perfect rhythm.
  • She did not shift her feet during the recital-perhaps because the old wooden floor planks could creak loudly.
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Related Words
Main Entry: sound
Part of Speech: adjective, noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
deaf, faint, loud, acoustic, altitonant, amphorous, anechoic, assonant, audible, audio, auditory, aural, auricular, borborygmic, buccinal, cacuminal, closed, distinct, dumb, foudroyant, glad, inaudible, isacoustic, monophonic, mum, mute, noisy, non, quadraphonic, quiet, rataplan, raucous, reel, rooped, roupy, singultous, soft, sonant, sonic, soniferous, sonorific, sonorous, sounding, soundproof, stereophonic, stertorous, still, stone, supersonic, throaty, tone
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Sound.
Category: 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; sound in general
Synonyms:
-nouns
sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation, tone; cadence; sonorousness; audibility; resonance; voice; aspirate; ideophone; rough breathing., [Science, of sound] acoustics; phonics, phonetics, phonology, phonography; diacoustics, diaphonics; phonetism.
-verbs
produce sound; sound, make a noise; give out sound, emit sound; resound.
-adjectives
sounding; soniferous; sonorous, sonorific; resonant, audible, distinct; stertorous; phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic.
-phrases
"a thousand trills and quivering sounds" [Addison]; forensis strepitus.
Antonyms: silence
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