MEANING
1. To produce rapid repeated clicking or rattling sounds.
2. To talk rapidly, casually, or at length about relatively light matters.
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Words that belong together
- teeth chatter
- machinery chatters
On the page
His teeth chattered as the temperature fell.
The relay chattered behind the sealed panel.
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Word forms
- Base
- chatter
- Past tense
- chattered
- Past participle
- chattered
- Present participle
- chattering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- chatter
- Present continuous
- am/is/are chattering
- Present perfect
- have/has chattered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been chattering
- Past
- chattered
- Past continuous
- was/were chattering
- Past perfect
- had chattered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been chattering
- Future
- will chatter
- Future continuous
- will be chattering
- Future perfect
- will have chattered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been chattering
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: chatter; chatters; chattered; chattered; chattering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: chatters.
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