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sabre-rattled

sabre-rattled is the simple past and past participle of sabre-rattle.

Meaning of sabre-rattle

Verb

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

  1. To threaten a big battle or war.
    • Then you speak of "the President's spread-eagle patriotism," his delight in "barnyard language," his "readiness to sabre-rattle at the ripple of a flag,"1969, Lawrence Edmund Spivak, Meet the Press: America's Press Conference of the Air

Questions about sabre-rattled

What is sabre-rattled the simple past and past participle of?
Sabre-rattled is the simple past and past participle of sabre-rattle.

Words near sabre-rattled in the dictionary

  1. sabre rattling
  2. sabre rattlings
  3. sabre saw
  4. sabre saws
  5. sabre-rattle
  6. sabre-rattled
  7. sabre-rattles
  8. sabre-rattling
  9. sabre-rattlings
  10. sabre-tooth
  11. sabre-toothed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sabre-rattled (page history and authors); sabre-rattle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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