Crossword-Solution: CREAK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CREAK | anagram | ACKER, CRAKE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
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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.
But the first step he made wrung such a hideous creak from the crazy floor that he sank down almost dead with fright.
This time his skill was greater or his tool was better, for there was a sudden snap and the creak of the hinges.
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.
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.
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 …
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…
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
Where this answer appears
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).