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creak

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1. creak - Noun

2. creak - Verb

Meaning

To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak.

To produce a creaking sound with.

The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. William Butler Yeats

The first deaths will barely swell the daily count, and no one in the statistics bureau will notice that extra zero. But after a while everyone will begin to look at each other and ask: what's happening? Because for months doors and windows are going to rattle, furniture and trees will creak. Octavio Paz

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. Tom Robbins

The trees creak with their arthritic arms / brittle in their powederd bark / this year took ten years to / tell me that I'm alone again. Blake Schwarzenbach

The devil's boots don't creak. Scottish Proverb

A wheel not greased will creak. Latin Proverb

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