Rattle meaning

Verb: rattle

Pronunciation: (ra-t(u)l)

Rattle meaning:

• Make short successive sounds
• Shake and cause to make a rattling noise
• Disturb the composure of.

Synonyms: enervate, faze, unnerve, unsettle

Noun: rattle

Rattle meaning:

• A rapid series of short loud sounds. (which could be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) Synonyms: rale, rattling
• A baby’s toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
• Loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake’s tail

Quotations: Wylie Mitchell – These students and their families are so anxious, and something like this, even though it’s relatively minor out of the millions of kids who took standardized tests this year, it rattles their sense of anxiety even more.

Doug Heller – The only thing more shocking than these profits is the prices that motorists are being forced to pay at the pump. It’s hard to imagine that these numbers won’t rattle the cages pretty severely.

Franz Kafka – Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

John Donne – I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Jeff Mountain – His stuff was pretty electric. When he’s on, he’s flooding the zone and getting a lot of swings and misses because of his movement. As a freshman, he’s just got that innate ability not to get rattled. He gave us the chance to get on top early and that was the difference in the game.

Sample sentences:

1. Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
2. I got a little rattled at times, but the team got some big hits for me. They got me some runs and that built my confidence back up.
3. It’s not going to last much longer. It’s not just the miles, but it’s the body. It’s rattling down the road. We can’t keep the vehicle safe for much longer.
4. He went to take the tire off and told me, the bolts were off. I asked him if there was any way they could have rattled off and he said that was impossible.
5. We have a veteran bunch who have been on some good teams before here, so we don’t get rattled too easily. They are very loose on the field.
6. They were a very aggressive team. We definitely got rattled and didn’t handle the pressure well.
7. I’m close to really getting in a groove. It’s such a hard game. You’ve got to grind it out every day. Hopefully, we can rattle some things off now.
8. It can’t really go much better. But we know how deadly they are. They’re a team that rattled off fifteen in a row, so we know that they’re potent.
9. We can’t wait to get into the league next season and start rattling some cages. Before that though, we’re just trying to get ready for the season ahead.
10. I fall to my knees, shake a rattle at the sky, I’m afraid that I’ll be taken, abandoned, and forsaken in her cold coffee eyes.