Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ratten
Participle: rattened
Gerund: rattening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ratten |
| you | ratten |
| he;she;it | rattens |
| we | ratten |
| you | ratten |
| they | ratten |
Perfect
| I | have rattened |
| you | have rattened |
| he;she;it | has rattened |
| we | have rattened |
| you | have rattened |
| they | have rattened |
Past
| I | rattened |
| you | rattened |
| he;she;it | rattened |
| we | rattened |
| you | rattened |
| they | rattened |
Pluperfect
| I | had rattened |
| you | had rattened |
| he;she;it | had rattened |
| we | had rattened |
| you | had rattened |
| they | had rattened |
Future
| I | will ratten |
| you | will ratten |
| he;she;it | will ratten |
| we | will ratten |
| you | will ratten |
| they | will ratten |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rattened |
| you | will have rattened |
| he;she;it | will have rattened |
| we | will have rattened |
| you | will have rattened |
| they | will have rattened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ratten |
| you | ratten |
| he;she;it | ratten |
| we | ratten |
| you | ratten |
| they | ratten |
Perfect
| I | have rattened |
| you | have rattened |
| he;she;it | have rattened |
| we | have rattened |
| you | have rattened |
| they | have rattened |
Imperfect
| I | rattened |
| you | rattened |
| he;she;it | rattened |
| we | rattened |
| you | rattened |
| they | rattened |
Pluperfect
| I | had rattened |
| you | had rattened |
| he;she;it | had rattened |
| we | had rattened |
| you | had rattened |
| they | had rattened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ratten |
| you | would ratten |
| he;she;it | would ratten |
| we | would ratten |
| you | would ratten |
| they | would ratten |
Perfect
| I | would have rattened |
| you | would have rattened |
| he;she;it | would have rattened |
| we | would have rattened |
| you | would have rattened |
| they | would have rattened |
Imperative
| you | ratten |
| we | Let's ratten |
| you | ratten |
Verbs conjugated like 'ratten'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ratten'
batten,
fatten,
patten,
rattan,
atren,
attend,
atter,
battel,
batter,
daften,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
The verbal sense is from the notion of causing mischief like a rat.
Sample Sentences
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Did you also employ them to ratten people if they had broken any rules of your society, for instance, by having too many apprentices? [1867, Report Presented to the Trades Unions Commissioners by the Examiners Appointed to Inquire Into Acts of Intimidation, Outrage, Or Wrong Alleged to Have Been Promoted, Encouraged, Or Connived at by Trades Unions in the Town of Sheffield, Great Britain. Royal Commission on Trades Unions. G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1867. p. 225]
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[…] derived from the sabot or shoe beneath railway lines. The saboteur was thus a remover of metal shoes, a train-wrecker. I must leave it at that. Meanwhile why not restore ratten to its old place in the Trade Union vocabulary, that is if, in these times of scant, we must endure any such wanton hindrance of the works? [1947, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, Say The Word, page 100:]