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1. Make short successive sounds
    
2. Shake and cause to make a rattling noise
    
3. [informal] Disturb the composure of
   "Good, it shouldn't rattle him at all";
   - faze, unnerve, enervate, unsettle

1. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
   "the death rattle";
   - rattling, rale
    
2. A baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
    
3. Loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail

Derived forms: rattling, rattles, rattled

See also: rattle off, rattle on [informal]

Type of: agitate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, go, noise, plaything, shake, sound, tail, toy, untune, upset

Part of: rattler [N. Amer, informal], rattlesnake

Encyclopedia: Rattle