noun
- A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.
- synonyms: rail
- Material for making rails or rails collectively.
verb
- Complain bitterly.
- Enclose with rails.
- usage: "rail in the old graves"
- Provide with rails.
- usage: "The yard was railed"
- synonyms: rail
- Separate with a railing.
- usage: "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace"
- Convey (goods etc.) by rails.
- usage: "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium"
- synonyms: rail
- Travel by rail or train.
- usage: "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg"
- Lay with rails.
- usage: "hundreds of miles were railed out here"
- synonyms: rail
- Fish with a handline over the rails of a boat.
- usage: "They are railing for fresh fish"
- synonyms: rail
- Spread negative information about.
- usage: "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"
- synonyms: vilify, revile, vituperate, rail
- Criticize severely.
- usage: "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"
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