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rattle through

rattle through verb: to do something extremely quickly and perfunctorily.

Verb

rattle through (third-person singular simple present rattles through, present participle rattling through, simple past and past participle rattled through)

  1. (idiomatic) To do something extremely quickly and perfunctorily.
    • The children rattled through their prayers and hopped into bed.

Forms of rattle through

third-person singular presentrattles through
present participlerattling through
past participlerattled through
pastrattled through

Questions about rattle through

What does rattle through mean?
Rattle through means to do something extremely quickly and perfunctorily.
What part of speech is rattle through?
Rattle through is a verb.
What is the past tense of rattle through?
The past tense of rattle through is rattled through.

Words near rattle through in the dictionary

  1. rattle stone
  2. rattle stones
  3. rattle the bones
  4. rattle the saber
  5. rattle the sabre
  6. rattle through
  7. rattle trap
  8. rattle traps
  9. rattle-free
  10. rattle-pate
  11. rattle-pates

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