Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1intransitive 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.
- 2intransitive verb
To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
- 3intransitive 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.
- 4transitive verb
To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
- 5transitive verb
To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
- 6transitive verb
Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
- 7transitive verb
To scold; to rail at.
- 8noun
A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
- 9noun
Noisy, rapid talk.
- 10noun
An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
- 11noun
A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
- 12noun
A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
- 13noun
Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
- 14noun
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.
- 15noun
loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail
- 16noun
a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
- 17noun
a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
"the death rattle"
- 18verb
shake and cause to make a rattling noise
- 19verb
make short successive sounds
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