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verb
Disconcert, upset someone
Synonyms: unnerving, upsetting, shaking, flustering, discomposing, disturbing, toying, unsettling, stunning, sounding, tossing, prattling, prating, perplexing, ruffling, noising, jiggling, rocking, jarring, jangling, perturbing, jabbering, fazing, disconcerting, flurrying, agitating, confusing, discomfiting, creaking, distracting, confounding, disquieting, clattering, clacking, chattering, chatting, bothering, babbling, annoying
Antonyms: soothing, appeasing, placating
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verb
To make or cause to make a succession of short, sharp sounds
Synonyms: clattering, knocking, clacking, chattering
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verb
To talk rapidly and incessantly
Synonyms: prattling, jawing, gassing, gabbing, spieling, chattering, prating, palavering, jabbering, clacking, chitchatting, blabbering
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adjective
Quick and energetic
Synonyms: fantastic, alert, grand, brisk, howling, lively, marvelous, marvellous, merry, terrific, snappy, tremendous, spanking, wonderful, zippy, wondrous
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noun
A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
Synonyms: rattle, rale
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adverb
Used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal
Synonyms: very, really, real