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🍂 To make soft noise 🍂 A soft sound 🦌 To search for food 🐄 To steal animals
to rustle

to rustle

9 7.8
To search for food, as wild animals do
  • verb
  • /ˈrʌsəl/
translation icon : hurgar en
  • The black-tailed monitor has a unique tactic to rustle up skinks, the small lizards on which it feeds.
  • rustle up some grub

Examples

  • I can rustle up some food if you're hungry.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • If I knew you were coming, I could've rustled up more of a welcome party.

    Destroyer (2018)

  • And, uh... rustle up a little wood for the fire.

    Cheyenne (1947)

  • Tell you what, you carry on with this and I'll rustle up something to eat.

    The Riddle (2007)

  • I'm sure we can rustle up some adventure tonight.

    Snatched (2017)

  • Bobby Jay, let me rustle us up something to eat.

    Shoot Out (1971)

  • I'll rustle up some soup or its equivalent, have it bubbling when you get here.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • TIMON: This looks like a good spot to rustle up some grub!

    The Lion King (2019)

  • "Oh, he'll be all right soon's I rustle up a lil' grub," Ben answered.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The dog went into the woods to rustle for some food among the bushes.

Synonyms

to scrounge
vsto rustle
  • Informal
12 6.8

To search for food or supplies by using what you find

focuses on animals searching and gathering food in the wild rather than opportunistic collecting
to rout
vsto rustle
  • UK
1 9.5

Dig in the ground with the nose to find food, like a pig

is a general search and gathering action not limited to snout digging
to rootle
vsto rustle
  • UK
9.9

To push the nose into the ground to find food, like pigs do

searches and gathers food more generally rather than only by snout digging
to search for prey
vsto rustle
5.0

To look for animals to hunt and eat

involves searching and gathering food generally not specifically hunting animals

Antonyms

to starve
328 1.7

To be very hungry and possibly die from no food

Phrasal Verbs

to rustle up
  • Informal
11 5.1

To quickly make or find something, often food, using what you have

How Active

to hunt
367 1.4
to scavenge
8 6.4
forage
1 4.6
to rustle
9 7.8
graze
1 2.0

Surface Forms

rustle infinitive
rustled past
rustled past participle
rustling present participle
rustles third person singular

Etymology

Rustle also came to be used for animals 'searching for food' because the animals often make soft noises as they move through leaves and bushes while looking for food. So when animals 'rustle' for berries, they are both moving and making that soft sound.