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synonyms for rat

  • betrayer
  • blabbermouth
  • canary
  • double-crosser
  • fink
  • informant
  • sneak
  • snitch
  • source
  • squealer
  • stoolie
  • tattler
  • tattletale
  • turncoat
  • whistle-blower
  • backstabber
  • deep throat
  • stool pigeon
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On this page you'll find 65 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rat, such as: betrayer, blabbermouth, canary, double-crosser, fink, and informant.

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Both groups produced similar hormone spikes when stressed, but in the juvenile rats, levels took much longer to return to normal.
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The team has already been placing them in rats and primates.
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Other researchers studied what happens when adolescent rats move into “enriched” environments.
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Blueberry-fed rats spent almost 70 percent of their time exploring the new object, as expected of animals that recognized the old object.
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Even if they find your trash can instead, he adds, “that’s necessarily going to support fewer rats.”
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Then in 2016, she and her colleagues reported that they had found oxidation in the livers, lungs and small intestines of sleep-deprived rats.
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Next morning Judy shouted that there was a rat in the nursery, and thus he forgot to tell her the wonderful news.
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He had repeated till he was thrice weary the statement that "the Cat lay on the Mat and the Rat came in."
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Growling horribly, the enraged brute seized poor Pearson and shook him as a terrier dog shakes a rat.
HUNTING THE LIONSR.M. BALLANTYNE
I was here a little while ago and nobody answered my knock, though I could hear that typewriter going rat, tat, tat all the time.
THE GIRLS OF CENTRAL HIGH ON THE STAGEGERTRUDE W. MORRISON
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WORDS RELATED TO RAT

  • Benedict Arnold
  • backstabber
  • betrayer
  • conspirator
  • deceiver
  • rat
  • turncoat
  • two-timer
  • weasel
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.