See creak in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert (author), Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter 10",
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"word": "ճռալ"
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"word": "發吱吱聲"
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"roman": "fā zhīzhī shēng",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "pt",
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"ref": "1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert (author), Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter 10",
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"ref": "1941, Theodore Roethke, “On the Road to Woodlawn”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 21:",
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"ref": "2007, Francis Pryor, Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History, page 232:",
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"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
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"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
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"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
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"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
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"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
"word": "þunian"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
"word": "trzeszczeć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
"word": "ranger"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
"word": "scârțâi"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "скрипе́ть"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "скри́пнуть"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
"word": "crujir"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
"word": "rechinar"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
"word": "knarra"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
"word": "knaka"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "skrypity",
"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
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},
{
"code": "uk",
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"sense": "to make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound",
"tags": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to produce a creaking sound with",
"word": "narisuttaa"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to produce a creaking sound with",
"word": "natisuttaa"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skripétʹ",
"sense": "to produce a creaking sound with",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "скрипе́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skrípnutʹ",
"sense": "to produce a creaking sound with",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "скри́пнуть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to produce a creaking sound with",
"word": "crujir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to produce a creaking sound with",
"word": "chirriar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to produce a creaking sound with",
"word": "rechinar"
}
],
"word": "creak"
}
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