rail
/ɹeɪ(ə)l/ verb C2- To complain violently (against, about).
He/she/it rails · Past railed · Past participle railed · -ing form railing
Verb forms
- Base form
- rail
- He/she/it
- rails
- Past
- railed
- Past participle
- railed
- -ing form
- railing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“There are no trains before six in the morning; so he can’t get away by rail.
“The trains which traverse the lines of rail beside which the body was found are those which run from west to east, some being purely Metropolitan, and some from Willesden and outlying junctions.
If you examine the roofs you will find that they are slightly rounded, and there is no railing round them.
It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.
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