Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rattle someone's cage
Participle: rattled someone's cage
Gerund: rattling someone's cage
Indicative
Present
| I | rattle someone's cage |
| you | rattle someone's cage |
| he;she;it | rattles someone's cage |
| we | rattle someone's cage |
| you | rattle someone's cage |
| they | rattle someone's cage |
Perfect
| I | have rattled someone's cage |
| you | have rattled someone's cage |
| he;she;it | has rattled someone's cage |
| we | have rattled someone's cage |
| you | have rattled someone's cage |
| they | have rattled someone's cage |
Past
| I | rattled someone's cage |
| you | rattled someone's cage |
| he;she;it | rattled someone's cage |
| we | rattled someone's cage |
| you | rattled someone's cage |
| they | rattled someone's cage |
Pluperfect
| I | had rattled someone's cage |
| you | had rattled someone's cage |
| he;she;it | had rattled someone's cage |
| we | had rattled someone's cage |
| you | had rattled someone's cage |
| they | had rattled someone's cage |
Future
| I | will rattle someone's cage |
| you | will rattle someone's cage |
| he;she;it | will rattle someone's cage |
| we | will rattle someone's cage |
| you | will rattle someone's cage |
| they | will rattle someone's cage |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rattled someone's cage |
| you | will have rattled someone's cage |
| he;she;it | will have rattled someone's cage |
| we | will have rattled someone's cage |
| you | will have rattled someone's cage |
| they | will have rattled someone's cage |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rattle someone's cage |
| you | rattle someone's cage |
| he;she;it | rattle someone's cage |
| we | rattle someone's cage |
| you | rattle someone's cage |
| they | rattle someone's cage |
Perfect
| I | have rattled someone's cage |
| you | have rattled someone's cage |
| he;she;it | have rattled someone's cage |
| we | have rattled someone's cage |
| you | have rattled someone's cage |
| they | have rattled someone's cage |
Imperfect
| I | rattled someone's cage |
| you | rattled someone's cage |
| he;she;it | rattled someone's cage |
| we | rattled someone's cage |
| you | rattled someone's cage |
| they | rattled someone's cage |
Pluperfect
| I | had rattled someone's cage |
| you | had rattled someone's cage |
| he;she;it | had rattled someone's cage |
| we | had rattled someone's cage |
| you | had rattled someone's cage |
| they | had rattled someone's cage |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rattle someone's cage |
| you | would rattle someone's cage |
| he;she;it | would rattle someone's cage |
| we | would rattle someone's cage |
| you | would rattle someone's cage |
| they | would rattle someone's cage |
Perfect
| I | would have rattled someone's cage |
| you | would have rattled someone's cage |
| he;she;it | would have rattled someone's cage |
| we | would have rattled someone's cage |
| you | would have rattled someone's cage |
| they | would have rattled someone's cage |
Imperative
| you | rattle someone's cage |
| we | Let's rattle someone's cage |
| you | rattle someone's cage |
Verbs conjugated like 'rattle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'rattle'
battle,
brattle,
prattle,
ruttle,
sattle,
tattle,
wattle,
berattle,
bottle,
buttle,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. c.1330, perhaps in O.E., but not recorded; if not, from M.Du.
ratelen, probably of imitative origin (cf. Ger.
rasseln "to rattle," Gk.
kradao "I rattle"). Sense of "fluster" is first recorded 1869. The noun is first recorded 1500, in ref. to the sound; as a child's toy, recorded from 1519.
Rattlesnake is from 1630; shortened form
rattler is from 1827.
Rattletrap is from 1766, originally a noun, "nicknacks, trifles, odds and ends;" adj. sense of "rickety" is recorded from 1834.
2. From Middle English ratelen, of uncertain origin; perhaps borrowed from Middle Dutch ratelen or of native origin related to Old English hratele, hrætele (“a plant known for its rustling or rattling sound”), ultimately imitative. The noun (c. 1500) is from the verb. See: Middle English '
ratelen'.
Verbs referencing "rattle"
Dutch
ratelen, German, old spelling
rattern, Cebuano ratol.
Sample Sentences
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[...] not to draw my breath as we passed, and trembled when I saw a workman come out upon the roof, lest with one thoughtless stamp of his foot he should crush the structure beneath him, and bring it rattling down. The very river that moves the machinery in the mills (for they are all worked by water power ), seems to acquire a new character from the fresh buildings of bright red brick and painted wood [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Tom and Haley rattled on along the dusty road, whirling past every old familiar spot, until the bounds of the estate were fairly passed, and they found themselves out on the open pike. After they had ridden about a mile, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] in their shirt-sleeves looking on at their unfinished houses, planning out to-morrow 's work; and we riding onward, high above them, like a whirlwind. It was amusing, too, when we had dined, and rattled down a steep pass, having no other moving power than the weight of the carriages themselves, to see the engine released, long after us, come buzzing down alone, like a great insect, its back of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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It soon became too dark, however, even for this amusement, and the trees were so close together that their dry branches rattled against the coach on either side, and obliged us all to keep our heads within. It lightened too, for three whole hours; each flash being very bright, and blue, and long; and as the vivid streaks [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and disconcerted for a moment; but children, luckily, do not keep to one impression long, and in a few moments she was merrily laughing at various things which she saw from the coach-windows, as it rattled along.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The country, by the railroad, seemed, as we rattled through it, like a luxuriant garden. The beauty of the fields (so small they looked ! ), the hedge-rows, and the trees; the pretty cottages, the beds of flowers, the old churchyards, the antique [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ If I do, I repent of it, I hope, ” said Miss Ophelia, rattling her needles with energy.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] side of a flickering wood fire, that threw uncertain glances round the room. It was a stormy, windy night, such as raises whole squadrons of nondescript noises in rickety old houses. Windows were rattling, shutters flapping, and wind carousing, rumbling, and tumbling down the chimney, and, every once in a while, puffing out smoke and ashes, as if a legion of spirits were coming after them. Legree had [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)