Synonyms for rail
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1. railverb

   Synonyms:
   censure, scold, bluster, scoff, chide, objurgate

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1. railing, railnoun

   a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports

   Synonyms:
   rails, track, runway, railing

2. railnoun

   short for railway

   "he traveled by rail"; "he was concerned with rail safety"

   Synonyms:
   rails, track, runway, railing

3. track, rail, rails, runwaynoun

   a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll

   Synonyms:
   rails, data track, cartroad, raceway, racecourse, cart track, caterpillar track, caterpillar tread, cut, runway, trail, lead, track, path, railing, course, racetrack, running

4. railnoun

   a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)

   Synonyms:
   rails, track, runway, railing

5. railverb

   any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud

   Synonyms:
   rails, track, runway, railing

6. rail, inveighverb

   complain bitterly

   Synonyms:
   declaim, fulminate, vilify, train, vituperate, revile, rail off, inveigh, rail in

7. rail, rail inverb

   enclose with rails

   "rail in the old graves"

   Synonyms:
   fulminate, vilify, train, vituperate, revile, rail off, inveigh, rail in

8. railverb

   provide with rails

   "The yard was railed"

   Synonyms:
   fulminate, vilify, train, vituperate, revile, rail off, inveigh, rail in

9. rail, rail offverb

   separate with a railing

   "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace"

   Synonyms:
   fulminate, vilify, train, vituperate, revile, rail off, inveigh, rail in

10. railverb

    convey (goods etc.) by rails

    "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium"

    Synonyms:
    fulminate, vilify, train, vituperate, revile, rail off, inveigh, rail in

11. train, railverb

    travel by rail or train

    "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg"

    Synonyms:
    aim, educate, cultivate, civilise, vituperate, civilize, groom, develop, discipline, take aim, vilify, check, condition, train, direct, coach, trail, inveigh, revile, take, rail off, rail in, fulminate, school, prepare

12. railverb

    lay with rails

    "hundreds of miles were railed out here"

    Synonyms:
    fulminate, vilify, train, vituperate, revile, rail off, inveigh, rail in

13. railverb

    fish with a handline over the rails of a boat

    "They are railing for fresh fish"

    Synonyms:
    fulminate, vilify, train, vituperate, revile, rail off, inveigh, rail in

14. vilify, revile, vituperate, railverb

    spread negative information about

    "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"

    Synonyms:
    fulminate, vilify, train, vituperate, revile, rail off, inveigh, rail in

15. fulminate, railverb

    criticize severely

    "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"

    Synonyms:
    vituperate, vilify, train, revile, fulminate, rail off, inveigh, rail in

Matched Categories

1. • Abuse
   • Architecture
   • Bar
   • Barrier
   • Complain
   • Denounce
   • Fish
   • Lay
   • Provide
   • Railway
   • Ride
   • Transport

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1. railverb

   Synonyms:
   upbraid, reproach, censure, scoff

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1. List of paraphrases for "rail":

   railway, railroad, railways, train, riel, iron, rails, kcrc, trans-asian, tomur, track-based, track, ramp, kcr, barrier, trains, railing

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1. Valero Energy Corp:

   We take safety very seriously, so we're concerned anytime there's an incident, despite the number of rail incidents recently, it is very rare for cargo not to be delivered to its destination safely.

2. Representative Bill Shuster:

   A strong, healthy and well-functioning freight rail system is critical to the movement of goods in this country, however, CP’s pursuit of a merger over the last two years has done nothing but create uncertainty in the rail industry, and there continues to be no clear path forward for such an arrangement.

3. James McTigue:

   Mark Tierney already had a war shot, a white bird on the rail, all of our fire control radars were pointing right at him. It was not going to take long for Mark Tierney to get the weapon away.

4. Rick Turner:

   We ’d been to Paris before loads, so we chose Lille this time, and decided where to go from there, we just knew we wanted to go to places we had n’t been before. We ’d always wanted to do that thing of going to an airport, looking at the flights leaving and getting on one – so without flights, we were looking at our rail app every day, working out where we could get to.

5. Kent Police:

   Rail passengers are advised to expect significant delays whilst the vehicle is being recovered and fumes are cleared from the tunnels.