rattle

About 1.81 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.

   to rattle a chain

2. verb To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
3. verb To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.

   I wish the dashboard in my car would quit rattling.

4. verb To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
5. verb To scold; to rail at.
6. verb To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.

   We rattled along for a couple of miles.

7. verb To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with on or away.

   She rattled on for an hour.

8. verb To experience withdrawal from drugs.

Similar words

shake jolt shaking noise stir tremble shiver agitate hit sway

Often followed by

of and in the off on is as or

Word family

rattled rattles rattling