RUSTLED Synonyms: 130 Similar and Opposite Words

rustled

verb

past tense of rustle

as in grazed

to feed on grass or herbs just take the steer out to pasture and let it rustle for itself

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as in scurried

to proceed or move quickly rustled around enthusiastically on the morning of the big trip

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as in crackled

to make small sounds usually by rubbing or moving my pet peeve is candy wrappers rustling during a movie

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Recent Examples of rustled As the wind kicked up, the wishes rustled, as if in conversation. —

Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026 The tremors from Old Trafford also rustled the papers on the desk of Napoli’s sporting director Giovanni Manna. —

James Horncastle, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026 The wind rustled gently through the leaves, and the only other sound was the soft buzz of bees moving from flower to flower. —

Menganyi Moroga, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rustled

Verb

But another pierced the car’s windshield, grazed the steering wheel and one of Fahd’s fingers before striking his son, Sam, in the head.

— Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
China is building some of the world’s largest solar farms on the Tibetan Plateau, where nomadic people have grazed herds of animals for millennia.

— Sanggay Tashi, The Conversation, 11 June 2026