Dictionary Entry
rustle
rustle is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 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 8 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
- 2intransitive verb
To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.
- 3transitive verb
To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
- 4noun
A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.
- 5noun
a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind
Synonyms
- 6verb
make a dry crackling sound
"rustling silk"
"the dry leaves were rustling in the breeze"
- 7verb
forage food
- 8verb
take illegally
"rustle cattle"
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