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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) [syn: flustered, hot and bothered, perturbed, rattled]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rattle Rat"tle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rattled; p. pr. & vb. n. Rattling.] [Akin to D. ratelen, G. rasseln, AS. hr[ae]tele a rattle, in hr[ae]telwyrt rattlewort; cf. Gr. ? to swing, wave. Cf. Rail a bird.] 1. To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter. And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms. --Addison. 'T was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. --Byron.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see rattle