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Synonyms for rail against

Grammar : Verb
Spell : reyl
Phonetic Transcription : reɪl

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Définition of rail against

Origin :
  • "horizontal bar passing from one post or support to another," c.1300, from Old French reille "bolt, bar," from Vulgar Latin *regla, from Latin regula "straight stick," diminutive form related to regere "to straighten, guide" (see regal). Used figuratively for thinness from 1872. To be off the rails in a figurative sense is from 1848, an image from the railroads. In U.S. use, "A piece of timber, cleft, hewed, or sawed, inserted in upright posts for fencing" [Webster, 1830].
  • verb revile
Example sentences :
  • You do not rail against steep places because you have a bad circulation.
  • Extract from : « The Soul of a People » by H. Fielding
  • Do not rail against the designs of Providence; it would be suicidal.
  • Extract from : « The Philippine Islands » by John Foreman
  • Yet all I could do was to rail against the unfairness of the unwarranted punishment.
  • Extract from : « Highways in Hiding » by George Oliver Smith
  • It is true, they “rail against a rock they cannot pull down.”
  • Extract from : « A Five Years' Residence in Buenos Ayres » by George Thomas Love
  • Parsons, who rail against the immorality of scepticism, say that this is all true.
  • Extract from : « Bible Romances » by George W. Foote
  • Claud, what makes me rail against you so is that I believe she loves you.
  • Extract from : « The Tree of Knowledge » by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
  • It is not my intention to rail against the short-comings of the day.
  • Extract from : « Worldly Ways and Byways » by Eliot Gregory
  • Yet to rail against it is as idle as to quarrel with any other force of nature.
  • Extract from : « The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft » by George Gissing
  • It should be my literary specialty to rail against literature.
  • Extract from : « New Grub Street » by George Gissing
  • She did not hanker after woman's rights, nor rail against the male sex.
  • Extract from : « The Book of the Bush » by George Dunderdale
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