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Definition of "rale" [rale]

  • An abnormal respiratory sound characterized by fine crackles. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "rale" in a sentence
  • "Órale is common pocho spanish in California and probably TX and AZ too."
  • "Going upstairs we met M. Huë, and Matthieu told him he arrested him; ... then, turning to my father, he said all that fury could suggest, and especially these words: "The générale is beaten, the cannon of warning is fired, the tocsin is sounding, the enemies are at Verdun, if they come we shall all perish, but you the first.""
  • "* The rale is the fame, and even ftill more efleotial to tragedy, inaobjed it to imprefs and afFecl the heart: true, but in order that the tears may be gentle, it muft be gentle fenfations that produce m toe id, not painful ones, which force them from us."
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