Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to creak
Participle: creaked
Gerund: creaking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | creak |
| you | creak |
| he;she;it | creaks |
| we | creak |
| you | creak |
| they | creak |
Perfect
| I | have creaked |
| you | have creaked |
| he;she;it | has creaked |
| we | have creaked |
| you | have creaked |
| they | have creaked |
Past
| I | creaked |
| you | creaked |
| he;she;it | creaked |
| we | creaked |
| you | creaked |
| they | creaked |
Pluperfect
| I | had creaked |
| you | had creaked |
| he;she;it | had creaked |
| we | had creaked |
| you | had creaked |
| they | had creaked |
Future
| I | will creak |
| you | will creak |
| he;she;it | will creak |
| we | will creak |
| you | will creak |
| they | will creak |
Future Perfect
| I | will have creaked |
| you | will have creaked |
| he;she;it | will have creaked |
| we | will have creaked |
| you | will have creaked |
| they | will have creaked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | creak |
| you | creak |
| he;she;it | creak |
| we | creak |
| you | creak |
| they | creak |
Perfect
| I | have creaked |
| you | have creaked |
| he;she;it | have creaked |
| we | have creaked |
| you | have creaked |
| they | have creaked |
Imperfect
| I | creaked |
| you | creaked |
| he;she;it | creaked |
| we | creaked |
| you | creaked |
| they | creaked |
Pluperfect
| I | had creaked |
| you | had creaked |
| he;she;it | had creaked |
| we | had creaked |
| you | had creaked |
| they | had creaked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would creak |
| you | would creak |
| he;she;it | would creak |
| we | would creak |
| you | would creak |
| they | would creak |
Perfect
| I | would have creaked |
| you | would have creaked |
| he;she;it | would have creaked |
| we | would have creaked |
| you | would have creaked |
| they | would have creaked |
Imperative
| you | creak |
| we | Let's creak |
| you | creak |
Verbs conjugated like 'creak'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'creak'
break,
cream,
croak,
freak,
screak,
wreak,
aread,
arear,
beak,
bread,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English creken, criken, metathesis of Old English cearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash, gnash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to crash, crack, creak”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to make a sound, cry hoarsely”), ultimately of imitative origin.
2. Compare also Old English crǣccettan, crācettan (“to croak”), Albanian grykë (“throat”). More at crack. See: Old English '
cearcian'.
Verbs referencing "creak"
Old French
criquer.
Sample Sentences
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[...] to be borne. I had left the door open, a moment before, in the bosom of a gentle declivity, and, when I turned to shut it, it was on the summit of a lofty eminence. Now every plank and timber creaked, as if the ship were made of wicker-work; and now crackled, like an enormous fire of the driest possible twigs. There was nothing for it but bed; so I went to bed.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] which the squalid street conducts us ? A kind of square of leprous houses, some of which are attainable only by crazy wooden stairs without. What lies beyond this tottering flight of steps, that creak beneath our tread ? — a miserable room, lighted by one dim candle, and destitute of all comfort, save that which may be hidden in a wretched bed. Beside it, sits a man: his elbows on his knees: his [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] had been something less than thirty; but there was scarcely time to think as much, when a train of three horses was attached to the tow-rope, the boy upon the leader smacked his whip, the rudder creaked and groaned complainingly, and we had begun our journey.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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- Zaria ? - (door creaking ) Sweetie? (suspenseful music continues ) (heartbeat pounding )
(Dangerous Feelings)
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[ chair slides ] -[Chas breathing ] -[floor creaking ]
(Tomorrow, You Pretty Ghost)