rattle

rattle is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
2. intransitive verb. To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
3. intransitive verb. To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.
4. transitive verb. To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
5. transitive verb. To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
6. transitive verb. Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
7. transitive verb. To scold; to rail at.
8. noun. A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
9. noun. Noisy, rapid talk.
10. noun. An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
11. noun. A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
12. noun. A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
13. noun. Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
14. noun. The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.
15. noun. loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail
16. noun. a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
17. noun. a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)

    "the death rattle"

    Synonyms: rale, rattling

18. verb. shake and cause to make a rattling noise
19. verb. make short successive sounds

Synonyms

rale, rattling

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rattle:

artlet, latter, rattel, talter, tartle, tatler

Common word forms

rattled, rattler, rattles, rattling

Words from these letters

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