RATTED (ON) Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

ratted (on)

verb

past tense of rat (on)

as in told (on)

to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities how much—or how little—did the fuzz have to pay you to rat on us?

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as in deserted

to leave (a cause or party) often in order to take up another many party operatives ratted on the senator's candidacy once her poll numbers started to slip

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Both of the soon-to-be newlyweds have talked openly about wanting to have kids.

— Bryan West, USA Today, 4 July 2026
Gyllenhaal received the President’s Award on Friday at the festival’s opening night ceremony, and talked to the international press on Saturday in a suite at the neo-baroque Grand Hotel Pupp in Karlovy Vary.

— Carole Horst, Variety, 4 July 2026

Definition of talked

Verb

Mbappe wasn’t the worst of France’s attackers and never stopped trying to turn the tide, but his quality deserted him.

— Liam Twomey, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Ghulam Ali whipped his head around to see if anyone else was there, but the fields were deserted at this time of day.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 June 2026

Definition of deserted

Verb

The sign at the entrance of a co-working space that informed guests they weren’t allowed to bring in their gun.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 18 July 2026
Leaders need visibility into actions AI systems take, including what data, context and reasoning informed those actions.

— Dave Link, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of informed

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The Senate, the upper house where conservatives hold a majority, rejected the bill.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 July 2026
Born in 1946 amid the bombing of Frankfurt, Ruppert instead developed a psychosexual cosmology that rejected neat distinctions between prey and predator.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026

Definition of rejected

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The Ukrainian videos showing the strikes from the drones’ perspective typically cut off at the moment of impact.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
Blaney won the first two stages but brushed the wall with 29 laps remaining, causing possible damage on his right side, after he was cut off by Wallace.

— CBS News, CBS News, 13 July 2026

Definition of cut off

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