creak
/kriːk/verb
उच्चारण क्रीक
चरमराना, चूँ-चूँ करना
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as one-word substitution
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[I]
(especially of a door or wooden floor) to make the long sound that a door sometimes makes when you open it or that a wooden floor sometimes makes when you step on it
चरमराना, चूँ-चूँ करना
- The old door creaked open.
- The wooden stairs creaked under his heavy feet.
- The floorboards creaked as she tiptoed down the corridor.
+ 2 more examples
- The rusty gate creaks every time the wind blows.
- Old bed frames tend to creak when someone turns over.
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[C]
a sound that a door or wooden floor makes
चरमराहट, चूँ-चूँ
- the creak of the stairs
- We heard the creak of the gate and knew that grandfather had returned.
- There was a loud creak from the attic above our heads.
+ 2 more examples
- With a long creak, the heavy wooden door swung open.
- The creak of the swing told us that the children were playing outside.
◇Word family
?Which word?
Homophone, asked very often: creak (a sound made by a door) and creek (a small river or a narrow area of water) are both pronounced /kriːk/.
Homophone में यह बहुत पूछा जाता है: creak (दरवाज़े की आवाज़) और creek (छोटी नदी या पानी का संकरा क्षेत्र, खाड़ी) दोनों की pronunciation /kriːk/ है।
Keep the sound words together: creak (of doors and floors), squeak (short high sound, like a mouse), rattle (short repeated knocking), rustle (soft sound of leaves or paper), clatter (loud sound of hard objects).
ध्वनि के शब्द साथ याद रखिए: creak (दरवाज़ों और फ़र्श की), squeak (चूहे जैसी छोटी ऊँची), rattle (छोटी बार-बार खटखट), rustle (पत्तियों या कागज़ की धीमी सरसराहट), clatter (कठोर चीज़ों की तेज़ आवाज़)।