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rattling through

rattling through is the present participle and gerund of rattle through.

Meaning of rattle through

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.

Questions about rattling through

What is rattling through the present participle and gerund of?
Rattling through is the present participle and gerund of rattle through.

Words near rattling through in the dictionary

  1. rattling sabres
  2. rattling someone's cage
  3. rattling the bones
  4. rattling the saber
  5. rattling the sabre
  6. rattling through
  7. rattlingly
  8. rattlingness
  9. rattlings
  10. rattlins
  11. rattly

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