MEANING
Produce a slow squeaking or groaning sound under movement or pressure.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- floorboards creak
- hinge creaks
On the page
The hinge creaked as the door opened inward.
Word forms
- Base
- creak
- Third-person present
- creaks
- Past tense
- creaked
- Past participle
- creaked
- Present participle
- creaking
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- creak / creaks
- Present continuous
- am/is/are creaking
- Present perfect
- have/has creaked
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been creaking
- Past
- creaked
- Past continuous
- was/were creaking
- Past perfect
- had creaked
- Past perfect continuous
- had been creaking
- Future
- will creak
- Future continuous
- will be creaking
- Future perfect
- will have creaked
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been creaking
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: creak; creaks; creaked; creaked; creaking Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: creaks.
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