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Rated vs Ratted - What's the difference?

rated | ratted |

As verbs the difference between rated and ratted

is that rated is past tense of rate while ratted is past tense of rat.

As adjectives the difference between rated and ratted

is that rated is scolded, rebuked while ratted is intoxicated.

rated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rate)

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.1:
    • He tooke it up, and thence with him did beare, / As rated Spaniell takes his burden up for feare.
  • * 1849 , , Shirley :
    • He merely passed by sheepishly with a rated , scowling look.

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    ratted

    English

    Etymology 1

    '' + ''-ed

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rat)

    • Etymology 2

    Contraction of rat-arsed

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British, slang) intoxicated

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