Word.ws English Dictionary

rally behind

rally behind verb: to support, particularly in a time of crisis.

Verb

rally behind (third-person singular simple present rallies behind, present participle rallying behind, simple past and past participle rallied behind)

  1. To support, particularly in a time of crisis.
    • But I know my role. I'm the one who rallies behind the kids.2005 02, Paula Abdul, quotee, People
    • I rallied behind him completely. If there was a trophy for cheerleading I would have won it because I was my husband's biggest supporter.2020 February 1, Sue Nyathi, The Polygamist, Pan Macmillan South africa, →ISBN

Forms of rally behind

third-person singular presentrallies behind
present participlerallying behind
past participlerallied behind
pastrallied behind

Questions about rally behind

What does rally behind mean?
Rally behind means to support, particularly in a time of crisis.
What part of speech is rally behind?
Rally behind is a verb.
What is the past tense of rally behind?
The past tense of rally behind is rallied behind.

Words near rally behind in the dictionary

  1. rally
  2. rally 'round the flag effect
  3. rally 'round the flag effects
  4. rally around
  5. rally around the flag
  6. rally behind
  7. rally cap
  8. rally caps
  9. rally cries
  10. rally cry
  11. rally English

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rally behind (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rally behind.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rally_behind. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.