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rattled definition and meaning

v. i. To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
v. i. To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
v. i. 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.
v. t. To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
v. t. To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
v. t. Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
v. t. To scold; to rail at.
n. A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
n. Noisy, rapid talk.
n. An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
n. A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
n. A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
n. Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
n. 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.
imp. & p. p. of Rattle

Crossword clues for rattled

- Baby's toy
- Baby’s noisy toy
- Baby’s toy
- Babys toy
- Bewilder backward elf? Fab!
- Disconcert
- Fluster, disconcert
- Infant’s plaything
- Perplex
- Toy rat let loose
- Vibrate noisily
- Flustered
- Shook noisily
- Unnerved by baby's toy?


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