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rerailing

rerailing is the present participle and gerund of rerail.

Meaning of rerail

Verb

rerail (third-person singular simple present rerails, present participle rerailing, simple past and past participle rerailed)

  1. (transitive) To replace on the rails.
    • At around 2130, a single wagon in a freight train derailed on a curve approaching the junction, and then rerailed as it passed over the junction.2020 September 9, “Network News: NR earthworks maintenance measures "not effective"”, in Rail, page 10
  2. To renew the rails in a railway line.

Noun

rerailing (countable and uncountable, plural rerailings)

  1. The process of fitting new rails.

Forms of rerailing

pluralrerailings

Questions about rerailing

What does rerailing mean?
Rerailing means the process of fitting new rails.
What is rerailing the present participle and gerund of?
Rerailing is the present participle and gerund of rerail.
What part of speech is rerailing?
Rerailing is a noun.
What is the plural of rerailing?
The plural of rerailing is rerailings.

Words near rerailing in the dictionary

  1. rerages
  2. rerail
  3. rerailed
  4. rerailer
  5. rerailers
  6. rerailing
  7. rerailings
  8. rerailment
  9. rerails
  10. reraise
  11. reraised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rerailing (page history and authors); rerail (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.

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