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Synonyms for railroaded


Grammar : Verb
Spell : reyl-rohd
Phonetic Transcription : ˈreɪlˌroʊd

Top 10 synonyms for railroaded Other synonyms for the word railroaded


Définition of railroaded

Origin :
  • 1757, from rail (n.1) + road. Originally "road laid with rails for heavy wagons (in mining)." The process itself (but not the word) seems to have been in use by late 17c. Application to passenger and freight trains dates from 1825, though tending to be replaced in this sense in England by railway.
  • As in incarcerate : verb put in jail, confinement
  • As in jail : verb incarcerate
  • As in press : verb pressure, trouble
  • As in push : verb thrust, press with force
  • As in push : verb incite, urge
  • As in accelerate : verb increase speed, timing
  • As in sentence : verb decide punishment
  • As in thrust : verb push hard
  • As in dispatch : verb hurry, send fast
  • As in drive : verb move or urge on
  • As in enact : verb authorize, legislate
  • As in expedite : verb make happen faster
Example sentences :
  • One had been blackmailed by an actress after an affair and railroaded her off the Earth.
  • Extract from : « The Adventurer » by Cyril M. Kornbluth
  • At last we were marched and railroaded back to Philadelphia.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs » by Charles Godfrey Leland
  • I staked everything I had on them, and then they railroaded me out of the county.
  • Extract from : « Cavanagh: Forest Ranger » by Hamlin Garland
  • If there is no other way, I must be railroaded in in an official capacity.
  • Extract from : « The Locusts' Years » by Mary Helen Fee
  • Was James Rowan the aggressor when he was railroaded out of town and beaten?
  • Extract from : « The Everett massacre » by Walker C. Smith
  • We understood that you'd been railroaded out of the country.
  • Extract from : « Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island » by Alice Emerson
  • I "railroaded" day and night, and I passed him; then turn about he passed me.
  • Extract from : « The Road » by Jack London
  • Railroaded through school and college, as he was, his tuition was necessarily defective in some important particulars.
  • Extract from : « The Brothers' War » by John Calvin Reed
  • Dad Sinclair took it all grimly and quietly; he had railroaded too long to care for anybody's chaff.
  • Extract from : « The Nerve of Foley » by Frank H. Spearman
  • That's what he done—let his partners get railroaded through while he sails out slick and easy.
  • Extract from : « A Texas Ranger » by William MacLeod Raine

Antonyms for railroaded

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