Creak
verb
Make a high, sharp sound when it is being moved or used (often used for old doors or furniture).
The old door creaked when she opened it.
Often appears as...
- creak open
- creak shut
noun
A high, sharp sound made by an object that is being moved or used (often used for old doors or furniture).
As she slowly opened the door, it let out an eerie creak.
Often appears as...
- eerie creak
- loud creak
verb
Move slowly and carefully in order to make as little noise as possible.
He creaked up the stairs, trying not to wake anyone.
Often appears as...
- creak up the stairs
- creak across the room
verb
Make a high, sharp sound when it is being moved or used (often used for old doors or furniture).
The old door creaked when she opened it.
Often appears as...
- creak open
- creak shut
noun
A high, sharp sound made by an object that is being moved or used (often used for old doors or furniture).
As she slowly opened the door, it let out an eerie creak.
Often appears as...
- eerie creak
- loud creak
verb
Move slowly and carefully in order to make as little noise as possible.
He creaked up the stairs, trying not to wake anyone.
Often appears as...
- creak up the stairs
- creak across the room
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Age or Deterioration
Use 'creak' to describe sounds from objects that are old or worn out.
The wooden floorboards creaked beneath their feet.
Pro Tip 2/3Atmospheric Tension
'Creak' often sets a mood in storytelling, suggesting suspense or fear.
A creak from the attic sent chills down my spine.
Pro Tip 3/3Onomatopoeic
'Creak' is an onomatopoeia, mimicking the sound it describes.
With each step, the creak of the steps echoed in the silent house.
Pro Tip 1/3Age or Deterioration
Use 'creak' to describe sounds from objects that are old or worn out.
The wooden floorboards creaked beneath their feet.
Pro Tip 2/3Atmospheric Tension
'Creak' often sets a mood in storytelling, suggesting suspense or fear.
A creak from the attic sent chills down my spine.
Pro Tip 3/3Onomatopoeic
'Creak' is an onomatopoeia, mimicking the sound it describes.
With each step, the creak of the steps echoed in the silent house.
Pro Tip 1/3Age or Deterioration
Use 'creak' to describe sounds from objects that are old or worn out.
The wooden floorboards creaked beneath their feet.
Pro Tip 2/3Atmospheric Tension
'Creak' often sets a mood in storytelling, suggesting suspense or fear.
A creak from the attic sent chills down my spine.
Pro Tip 3/3Onomatopoeic
'Creak' is an onomatopoeia, mimicking the sound it describes.
With each step, the creak of the steps echoed in the silent house.
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Video examples
Proof: Steve Winter on...
so funny on my first story I was you know one-room shack on top of a mountain Guatemala when I heard the stairs creaking at night and then I hear this scratching under the door and then and the hair on back my head stood I grabbed the radio and called down the mountain to juan carlos and they said in spanish
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Meklit Hadero: The...
It was that sneeze in the back. It is the everyday soundscape that arises from the audience their coughs, their sighs, their rustles, their whispers, their sneezes, the room, the wood of the floors and the walls expanding and contracting, creaking and groaning with the heat and the cold,
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Stunning Cave...
it creaks and groaned, made these really strange noises. And I remember when we were exploring it, I would look up into the ceiling and see TV sized rocks wedged up in the ice, half out, half in. Thinking to myself, I wonder how much protection my little thin helmet
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Depression, the secret...
kept treading -- treading -- till that Sense was breaking through -- And when they all were seated, a Service, like a Drum -- kept beating -- beating -- till I my Mind was going numb -- And then I heard them lift a Box and creak across my Soul
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My journey from Marine...
And I hear him turn on the faucet and pour himself a glass of warm tap water. And he puts the glass back in the sink. And I hear his footsteps. And they get slower as they get to my room. And he creaks my door open, like, mad-slow.
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Journey 1000m Below The...
eight hours as we descend it gets darker and darker the deeper we go the greater the pressure on the outside of the Sun but we don't feel that inside just very occasionally we'll hear the acrylic sphere creaking under the strain
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Björn Ulvaeus: How music...
This is the moment for the entire music industry to invest in supporting what is, without a doubt, its most valuable asset. Far too many songwriters out there are suffering in this creaking system.
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Can you play the sitar?...
its delicate body made of wood and gourds creaks and warps at the slightest change of temperature and humidity its tuning pegs all 20 of them held in place with nothing more than friction in a
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How to Build a Bow Drill...
it's like that so those you can grease it up you haven't had a creak slam in a while that makes a little a little faster one all the friction to be on the low end
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Feeding 39 Hungry Moon...
oh here they come the rice is on I can't get out the door creaking back
Video examples
Proof: Steve Winter on...
so funny on my first story I was you know one-room shack on top of a mountain Guatemala when I heard the stairs creaking at night and then I hear this scratching under the door and then and the hair on back my head stood I grabbed the radio and called down the mountain to juan carlos and they said in spanish
Video examples
Meklit Hadero: The...
It was that sneeze in the back. It is the everyday soundscape that arises from the audience their coughs, their sighs, their rustles, their whispers, their sneezes, the room, the wood of the floors and the walls expanding and contracting, creaking and groaning with the heat and the cold,
Video examples
Stunning Cave...
it creaks and groaned, made these really strange noises. And I remember when we were exploring it, I would look up into the ceiling and see TV sized rocks wedged up in the ice, half out, half in. Thinking to myself, I wonder how much protection my little thin helmet
Video examples
Depression, the secret...
kept treading -- treading -- till that Sense was breaking through -- And when they all were seated, a Service, like a Drum -- kept beating -- beating -- till I my Mind was going numb -- And then I heard them lift a Box and creak across my Soul
Video examples
My journey from Marine...
And I hear him turn on the faucet and pour himself a glass of warm tap water. And he puts the glass back in the sink. And I hear his footsteps. And they get slower as they get to my room. And he creaks my door open, like, mad-slow.
Video examples
Journey 1000m Below The...
eight hours as we descend it gets darker and darker the deeper we go the greater the pressure on the outside of the Sun but we don't feel that inside just very occasionally we'll hear the acrylic sphere creaking under the strain
Video examples
Björn Ulvaeus: How music...
This is the moment for the entire music industry to invest in supporting what is, without a doubt, its most valuable asset. Far too many songwriters out there are suffering in this creaking system.
Video examples
Can you play the sitar?...
its delicate body made of wood and gourds creaks and warps at the slightest change of temperature and humidity its tuning pegs all 20 of them held in place with nothing more than friction in a
Video examples
How to Build a Bow Drill...
it's like that so those you can grease it up you haven't had a creak slam in a while that makes a little a little faster one all the friction to be on the low end
Video examples
Feeding 39 Hungry Moon...
oh here they come the rice is on I can't get out the door creaking back
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Quote examples
Rob Manuel
Businessman
Look at the world of both film and indie games, and you'll find a startling similarity between the two when it comes to creating the perfect horror story. The tricks storytellers pull to make your blood run cold never change; a creaking floorboard, the eerie feeling of being watched, wandering into a world filled with unspeakable terror.
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James Marsden
American Actor
It's hard enough to just be a good actor. When you're on set, there's everything going against you. There are walkie talkies going off, the camera is creaking and moving, there are boom mics, and you have to hit your mark and make sure you don't shadow the other person's face. It's a really technical process.
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Pierre Schaeffer
French Composer
Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.
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Kate Christensen
American Novelist
Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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Edie Falco
American Actress
Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.
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Michael Haneke
American Director
To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek Writer
All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.
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Kenya Barris
American Producer
I hear a creak in my house, and I'm calling the police immediately, but at the same time, I do know that when I call them, I'm going to make sure to say, 'I'm a black guy, and this is my house.
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Mukul Dev
Indian Actor
A horror film does not rely on dialogues and music. It is the sound of creaking doors, the window banging open and the build-up that is not easy to achieve.
Quote examples
Louis Gossett, Jr.
American Actor
There's really nothing like a live audience right there. When you're in a bad show, you can hear the creaks in the chairs.
Quote examples
Rob Manuel
Businessman
Look at the world of both film and indie games, and you'll find a startling similarity between the two when it comes to creating the perfect horror story. The tricks storytellers pull to make your blood run cold never change; a creaking floorboard, the eerie feeling of being watched, wandering into a world filled with unspeakable terror.
Quote examples
James Marsden
American Actor
It's hard enough to just be a good actor. When you're on set, there's everything going against you. There are walkie talkies going off, the camera is creaking and moving, there are boom mics, and you have to hit your mark and make sure you don't shadow the other person's face. It's a really technical process.
Quote examples
Pierre Schaeffer
French Composer
Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.
Quote examples
Kate Christensen
American Novelist
Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
Quote examples
Edie Falco
American Actress
Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.
Quote examples
Michael Haneke
American Director
To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.
Quote examples
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek Writer
All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.
Quote examples
Kenya Barris
American Producer
I hear a creak in my house, and I'm calling the police immediately, but at the same time, I do know that when I call them, I'm going to make sure to say, 'I'm a black guy, and this is my house.
Quote examples
Mukul Dev
Indian Actor
A horror film does not rely on dialogues and music. It is the sound of creaking doors, the window banging open and the build-up that is not easy to achieve.
Quote examples
Louis Gossett, Jr.
American Actor
There's really nothing like a live audience right there. When you're in a bad show, you can hear the creaks in the chairs.
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