English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of rattle

rattle

/noun/ खड़खड़; खड़खड़ का शब्द; खड़खड़ाहट; झुनझुना;
/verb/खड़खड़ाना; खड़खड़ करना; जल्दी जल्दी कहना; जल्दी जल्दी दुहराना;

Synonym rustle; noise;

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English Dictionary:

1. Rattle

[n.]

- A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
- Noisy, rapid talk.
- An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
- A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
- A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
- Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
- The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.

2. Rattle

[v. i.]

- To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
- To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
- To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.

3. Rattle

[v. t.]

- To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
- To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
- Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
- To scold; to rail at.