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rerails

rerails is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about rerails

What is rerails the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rerails is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rerail.

Words near rerails in the dictionary

  1. rerailer
  2. rerailers
  3. rerailing
  4. rerailings
  5. rerailment
  6. rerails
  7. reraise
  8. reraised
  9. reraises
  10. reraising
  11. rerake

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rerails (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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