rustling

Meaning of rustling

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. make a soft, muffled crackling sound like that caused by the movement of dry leaves or paper.
    she came closer, her skirt swaying and rustling
  2. round up and steal (cattle, horses, or sheep).
    a murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled
    horse rustling is a growing problem
  3. move or act quickly or energetically; hustle.
    rustle around the kitchen, see what there is

late Middle English (as a verb): imitative; compare with Flemish rijsselen and Dutch ritselen . The noun dates from the mid 18th century.

Information about rustling

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of rustling is: rustlings.
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Hyphenation of rustling

rustling

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • rustling is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

rustling synonyms

Meaning murmurous:

murmurous, soughing, susurrous

Meaning rustle:

rustle, whisper, whispering

Meaning move with a hissing or rushing sound:

swish, swishing

Meaning whispering or rustling:

susurration, susurrus

Meaning (of the wind or something through which the wind blows) make a sound resembling a sigh:

sigh

Meaning move quickly or suddenly with a rushing sound:

whoosh

Meaning make a rustling sound:

fissle

Meaning (of leaves, wind, etc.) make a whispering or rustling sound:

susurrate

Meaning take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it:

steal

Meaning be a thief; steal something:

thieve

Meaning lay hold of (something) with one's hands; reach for and hold:

take

Meaning take (someone) away illegally by force or deception; kidnap:

abduct

Meaning abduct (someone) and hold them captive, typically to obtain a ransom:

kidnap

Anagrams of rustling

lustring

Words that rhyme with rustling

Ling, Coaling, Ealing, annealing, antiwhaling, appealing, autodialing, avaling, backpedaling, baling, bealing, berascaling, canaling, capitaling, charcoaling, coaling, concealing, congealing, countersealing, craaling, credentialing, crystaling, dealing, descaling, dialing, downscaling, embaling, empaling, ensealing, equaling, exhaling, fealing, foaling, forepaling, gealing, gimbaling, goaling, haling, healing, impaling, inhaling, initialing, instealing, interdealing, intervaling, journaling, keelhaling, kraaling, lateraling, localing

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