Crossword-Solution: CREAK 5 letters, 82 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Creak v. i. To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as
by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak.
Creak v. t. To produce a creaking sound with.
Creak n. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.

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Word Anagrams
CREAK anagram ACKER, CRAKE

We have 82 clues for the answer “CREAK”

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Scary story sound 1 answer
Sound like an old door 1 answer
Sound in a haunted house 1 answer
Sound from an unoiled hinge 1 answer
Sound from an old wood floor 1 answer
Sound from an old staircase 1 answer
Sound from an old floorboard 1 answer
Sound from a floorboard 1 answer
Sign of an oil shortage? 1 answer
Sharp squeak. 1 answer
Sound like an old floorboard 1 answer
Rusty hinge sound 1 answer
Rusty gate sound 1 answer
Result of an oil shortage? 1 answer
Reason to lubricate 1 answer
Old-house noise 1 answer
Old-floor sound 1 answer
Old floorboards sound 1 answer
Old floorboard sound 1 answer
Sound spooky 1 answer
What old knees may do 1 answer
Unwelcome sound for a burglar 1 answer
Staircase sound 1 answer
Stair noise 1 answer
Squeaking sound 1 answer
Squeaking noise 1 answer
Squeak when walked on, as a floorboard 1 answer
Spooky sound effect. 1 answer
Spooky noise 1 answer
Old house sound 1 answer
Sound rickety 1 answer
Sound of old floorboards 1 answer
Sound of an unsound floor 1 answer
Sound of an old wooden floor 1 answer
Sound of an old wood floor 1 answer
Sound of a rusted hinge. 1 answer
Sound of a haunted house's floor 1 answer
Sound like rusted hinges 1 answer
Old bones may do it 1 answer
Audible sign of age 1 answer
Bone sound at 90 1 answer
Bones and doors may do it 1 answer
Door sound, perhaps 1 answer
Door sound, sometimes 1 answer
Eerie floor noise 1 answer
Floor noise 1 answer
Floor sound 1 answer
Floorboard noise 1 answer
Floorboard sound 1 answer
Floorboards sound 1 answer
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One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with CREAK (5)

Every window replies by a clang to the opening and shutting of every door, a tremble follows every bustling movement, and a creak accompanies a walker about the house, like a spirit, wherever he goes.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
But the first step he made wrung such a hideous creak from the crazy floor that he sank down almost dead with fright.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
This time his skill was greater or his tool was better, for there was a sudden snap and the creak of the hinges.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994
Now then, softly, Thomas! If your shoes creak, I am a lost man.' He noiselessly led the way into the hall, followed by the servant on tip-toe.
The Haunted Hotel Wilkie Collins 2008
And then, in an instant, “What’s the matter with that buggy?” His practiced ear had apparently detected an unnatural creak in the wheels of the light vehicle which had been brought to the portico, and he hurried away to investigate so grave an anomaly.
The Europeans Henry James 1994

Quotes with CREAK (3)

To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it …
Fredrik Backman A Man Called Ove
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn…
Jack Kerouac On the Road
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
Tom Robbins
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 133 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).