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creaks

/kɹiːks/

creaks is the plural of creak.

creaks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of creak.

Meaning of creak

Noun

creak (plural creaks)

  1. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
    • I won't say that I didn't close my eyes for a minute through the whole night, but if I did sleep it was only as a watchdog sleeps. A whisper or a creak of a board would have found me alert.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

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Words that rhyme with creaks

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Questions about creaks

What is creaks the plural of?
Creaks is the plural of creak.
How do you pronounce creaks?
Creaks is pronounced /kɹiːks/.

Words near creaks in the dictionary

  1. creakinesses
  2. creaking
  3. creakingly
  4. creakings
  5. creakless
  6. creaks
  7. creaky
  8. creaky voice
  9. cream
  10. cream ale
  11. cream ales

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