to rattle
151
2.2
- verb
- /ˈrætəl/
:
hacer vibrar
- Jill stifles a yell as shards of broken porcelain rattle to the floor around her.
There's no creaking, rattling, jiggling of stuff inside the car.
- There's no creaking, rattling, jiggling of stuff inside the car.
- But this thing just starts so smoothly and it barely rattles and it barely moves.
- It doesn't really shake and rattle and vibrate like a lot of other aircraft will do.
- He he kept put that bone in his mouth and he rattled it.
- And that's the and that's just a, you know, with a as a baby, you just trying to rattle that a cup.
Examples
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The wind made the windows rattle during the storm.
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As soon as Data was finished, the man began to rattle off suggestions.
Fiction book (1991) -
Outside of another small town, an immense, square truck rattled to a halt.
Academic text (2009) -
The familiar chord sounds, and the hard drive rattles through its usual procedure.
Academic text (1998) -
Instinctively, he reached out, and with his eyes still closed, rattled the receiver off the hook.
Fiction book (1990) -
As the car drove over the bumpy road, the loose parts began to rattle loudly.
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He shook the can of spray paint, causing it to rattle with a sharp noise.
Synonyms
33
2.8
To make short, sharp popping sounds
29
3.9
To make a loud rattling sound by hitting hard things together
16
5.1
To make a short, sharp sound by hitting glass or metal together
15
5.2
A loud metallic sound that often repeats or echoes
13
5.1
To make a harsh ringing sound like keys or coins
5
7.2
To make short, sharp clicking sounds
Idioms
- Informal
1
7.8
To do or say something on purpose to upset someone and see their reaction
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A plant with many branches and bright yellow flowers that grows in eastern North America
- Specialized
A tall North American plant with long white flowers that keeps insects away
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Rattle is an old 'sound word' that copies the quick, sharp noise you hear when things are shaken, like coins in a pocket or a child's toy. So to rattle something is literally to 'make a series of short, sharp noises' by shaking or hitting it.