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present tense third-person singular of rail (at or against)
Synonyms & Antonyms of rails (at or against)
to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings
- we could hear the cook in the kitchen railing against his assistant and wondered if we'd ever get our food
Synonyms for rails (at or against)
- bastes,
- bawls out,
- berates,
- calls down,
- castigates,
- chastises,
- chews out,
- dresses down,
- flays,
- hammers,
- jaws,
- keelhauls,
- lambastes
- (or lambasts),
- lectures,
- rags,
- rants (at),
- rates,
- reams (out),
- rebukes,
- reprimands,
- reproaches,
- scolds,
- scores,
- tongue-lashes,
- upbraids
Words Related to rails (at or against)
- abuses,
- assails,
- attacks,
- bad-mouths,
- blames,
- blasts,
- censures,
- condemns,
- criticizes,
- crucifies,
- denounces,
- disses
- [slang],
- excoriates,
- faults,
- harangues,
- knocks,
- laces (into),
- lashes,
- pans,
- reprehends,
- reviles,
- scourges,
- slams,
- vituperates
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