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RATTLED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thrown into a state of agitated confusion; ('rattled' is an informal term)

Synonyms:

flustered; hot and bothered; perturbed; rattled

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

discomposed (having your composure disturbed)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb rattle

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 Context examples: 

And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When he ceased she became brisk again in an instant, and rattled away with surprising volubility.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Several times during the night he sprang to his feet when the shed door rattled open, expecting to see the Judge, or the boys at least.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I pulled, and pulled, at the door, and shook it till, massive as it was, it rattled in its casement. I could see the bolt shot.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Quick as thought, I sprang into the mizzen shrouds, rattled up hand over hand, and did not draw a breath till I was seated on the cross-trees.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Waldron, though a hardened lecturer and a strong man, became rattled.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A question about whether an individual does or did get rattled or flustered.

(Did You Get Rattled, Upset, or Flustered, NCI Thesaurus)

At last the guard returned; once more I was stowed away in the coach, my protector mounted his own seat, sounded his hollow horn, and away we rattled over the "stony street" of L-.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They passed the drawbridge, and entered the town; and the light was only beginning to fail as, guided by William's powerful voice, they were rattled into a narrow street, leading from the High Street, and drawn up before the door of a small house now inhabited by Mr. Price.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was a smart little landau which rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)