How to pronounce “rattle”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive, ergative) To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
• (transitive, figurative, informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
• (intransitive) To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.
• (transitive, obsolete) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
• (transitive, obsolete) To scold; to rail at.
• To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.
• To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with on or away.
• (UK, slang) To experience withdrawal from drugs.
• [Noun]
• Object that rattles.
• Rattling sound.

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