Crossword clues for rattled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rattle \Rat"tle\ (r[a^]t"t'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rattled (-t'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Rattling (-tl[i^]ng).] [Akin to D. ratelen, G. rasseln, AS. hr[ae]tele a rattle, in hr[ae]telwyrt rattlewort; cf. Gr. kradai`nein to swing, wave. Cf. Rail a bird.]
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To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms.
--Addison.'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street.
--Byron. To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles. [Colloq.]
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. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: rattle)
WordNet
Usage examples of "rattled".
Eventually the old woman got rattled and began to swerve erratically, afraid to go faster with Woltz so close behind her but too frightened of him to pull off the road and let him pass by.
She heard the distinctive snap of the tugged switch, then the clinking of the metal beads in the chain as they rattled against the light bulb.
Honda shot forward, rattled and splashed across the ditch, and slammed into the trunk of the redwood.
The blast rattled windows, and the slug tore through a cabinet door along the nearest wall, spraying splinters of pine and shattering dishes inside.
The loop of chain rattled across the floor, no longer anchoring her to the table.
She exhaled explosively, with a shudder that rattled her chains, and leaned against the sofa, and gradually her fluttering heart grew calmer.
Howling with misery in expectation of the pain, she rammed backward and screamed when the blow rattled her bones like dice in a cup.
The cottage rattled in the shock waves of thunderclaps as hard as bomb blasts, and the storm broke.
Key West heat, thunder had rattled in the window and sung in the bedsprings, and cold blue reflections of lightning had fluttered like a dream fire across the painted wood floor.
Its claws rattled briefly against the glass, and then it dropped back to the lawn, glaring at her.
Their bodies buzzed with a sound from her dreams, a sound that went straight through her clothes and rattled her bones.
Greenstalk drove close to him, and they rattled their fronds at each other.
He rattled something at the ship, and the windows were filled with views of nearby berths in the repair harbor.
The voice rattled quiet for just an instant, and this time Blueshell made no move.
When it saw Ravna and Johanna, its eyes went wide, the whites showing all around, and it rattled barely intelligible Samnorsk at them.