RATTEN

Definition: RATTEN

RATTEN

Transitive verb

1. To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "RATTEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Etymology: Ratten \Rat"ten\, transitive verb. [Prov. English ratten rat, hence the verb literally means, to do mischief like rat.]. (Websters 1913)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Impotence

Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.

Crosswords: RATTEN

German (rats).

Die Ratten (1969)

Ratten - sie werden dich kriegen! (2001)

Die Ratten (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Das hatten die Ratten vom Schatten : ein Lachbuch (reference)

• Een krat vol dode ratten : in vijf werelddelen achter de coulissen van de grote reportage (reference)

• Naturalistische Dramen Gerhart Hauptmanns : Die Weber, Rose Bernd, Die Ratten : Thematik, Entstehung, Gestaltungsprinzipien, Struktur (reference)

• Ratten : the web of circumstance (reference)

• Ratten Stick Trick (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

German

sabotieren (sabotage, sabotaging). (various references)

Pig Latin

attenray.(various references)

Romanian

Opri Din Lucru, Împiedica Sã Munceascã, Ameninţa (bludgeon, bluster, denunciate, impend, launch a threat, menace, overhang, scowl, threaten). (various references)

Russian 

умышленно портить оборудование, саботировать (shirk). (various references)

Turkish

Sabote Etmek (sabotage), Sabotaj Yapmak (sabotage), Makineleri Bozmak. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "RATTEN": rattened, rattener, ratteners, rattening, rattens. (additional references)

Words containing "RATTEN": overattention, overattentions. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: natter.

-1 letter: antre, tater, tetra, treat.

-2 letters: ante, earn, etna, near, neat, nett, rant, rate, rent, tare, tarn, tart, tate, tear, teat, tent, tern, tret.

-3 letters: ane, ant, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, nae, net, ran, rat, ret, tae, tan, tar, tat, tea, ten, tet.

-4 letters: ae, an, ar, at, en, er, et, na, ne, re, ta.

+1 letter: entrant, entreat, intreat, iterant, natters, nattier, nitrate, pattern, ratteen, rattens, reptant, taunter, ternate, tertian.

+2 letters: alterant, anteater, antevert, attainer, attender, attorned, attorney, battener, betatron, earthnut, entrants, entreats, entreaty, fattener, gnattier, interact, intranet, intreats, martinet, nattered, nitrated, nitrates, patentor, patterns, ratteens, rattened, rattener, reactant, reattain, retirant, slattern, straiten, tarletan, tartness, taunters, tenantry, tertians, tetragon, threaten, tolerant, transect, transept, trapnest, trawlnet, treating, triptane, truanted, truncate.

+3 letters: advertent, alterants, alternate, anorthite, anteaters, anteverts, apartment, argentite, arrestant, attainder, attainers, attenders, attorneys, batteners, battering, betatrons, carnotite, certainty, crepitant, deratting, detonator, earthnuts, entertain, entreated, entrechat, fatteners, flattener, fortunate, instanter, integrate, interacts, intimater, intranets, intreated, intricate, iterating, iteration, itinerant, itinerate, letterman, martinets, maternity, mattering, natrolite, nattering, nontarget, northeast, orientate, outlearnt, patentors, paternity, patienter, pattering, patterned, penetrant, penetrate, protonate, ratteners, rattening, rattooned, reactants, reattains, recontact, reductant, reentrant, reinstate, reluctant, repattern, repentant, resistant, restating, restraint, resultant, retardant, retasting, retirants, revertant, slatterns, stationer, sterilant, straitens, strangest, targeting, tarletans, tattering, tearstain, teratogen, termagant, terminate, ternately, tervalent, tetragons, threatens, threating, transects, transepts, transfect, transient, transited, translate, transmute, trapnests, trawlnets, treatment, tremulant, trenchant, trepidant, tribunate, triptanes, trivalent, truncated, truncates, turbinate, turntable, untreated, utterance, yattering.

+4 letters: adulterant, alteration, alternated, alternates, alternator, anorthites, antemortem, anteverted, anthracite, antierotic, antihunter, antilitter, antimarket, antimatter, antinature, antistress, antistrike, antitrades, apartments, aquatinter, arctangent, argentites, arrestants, arrestment, assortment, astringent, attainders, attenuator, attornment, bannerette, blattering, brattiness, cantatrice, carnotites, centralest, centralist, centrality, certainest, chattering, clattering, contracted, contrasted, counteract, denaturant, department, detonators, detracting, detraction, downstater, entertains, entrapment, entreaties, entreating, entrechats, eructating, eructation, estreating, exenterate, exorbitant, extenuator, extracting, extraction, fenestrate, flatteners, flattering, fraternity, impartment, infiltrate, ingratiate, integrated, integrates, integrator, intenerate, interacted, intercaste, interfaith, intergraft, interparty, interplant, interstage, interstate, intertidal, intertrial, intimaters, intolerant, intraplate, intrastate, intreating, inveterate, iterations, itinerants, itinerated, itinerates, laundrette, literation, marionette, martensite, menstruate, metacenter, monetarist, natrolites, negotiator, neutralist, neutrality, nonstarter, northeasts, orientated, orientates, pargetting, parturient, patterning, penetrants, penetrated, penetrates, pentameter, portamenti, portamento, precontact, pretasting, protectant, protestant, protonated, protonates, quaternity, ratcheting, reattained, recitation, recontacts, reductants, reentrants, refutation, registrant, reinitiate, reinstated, reinstates, remittance, repatterns, reputation, resistants, restarting, restaurant, restraints, resultants, retardants, retracting, retraction, retransmit, retreatant, retreating, revertants, sandlotter, scattergun, scattering, shattering, slatternly, smattering, spattering, stationers, stationery, stentorian, stepparent, sterilants, straighten, straitened, straitness, tanistries, tantalizer, tarantases, tarantella, tarantulae, tartnesses, tearstains, technocrat, tenantries, tentacular, teratogens, termagants, terminated, terminates, terminator, terneplate, tetracaine, tetragonal, tetrazzini, thorianite, threatened, threatener, tolerantly, tolerating, toleration, torrential, tournament, trabeation, trajecting, trajection, tramontane, transacted, transected, transeptal, transfects, transients, transitive, translated, translates, transmuted, transmutes, transudate, trapnested, travertine, treatments, tribunates, tripinnate, tristearin, trochanter, truantries, tryptamine, turbinated, turbinates, turntables, understate, unsaturate, utterances, ventilator, waterfront, wentletrap.

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