rail
verb/reɪl/
/reɪl/
[intransitive, transitive] (formal)Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they rail | /reɪl/ /reɪl/ |
| he / she / it rails | /reɪlz/ /reɪlz/ |
| past simple railed | /reɪld/ /reɪld/ |
| past participle railed | /reɪld/ /reɪld/ |
| -ing form railing | /ˈreɪlɪŋ/ /ˈreɪlɪŋ/ |
- rail (at/against something/somebody) | + speech (formal) to complain about something/somebody in a very angry way synonym rage
- She railed against the injustice of it all.
Word Originverb late Middle English: from French railler, from Provençal ralhar ‘to jest’, based on an alteration of Latin rugire ‘to bellow’.
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