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View synonyms for detrain
detrain
[ dee-treyn ]
verb (used without object)
- to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
- Meteorology. to transfer air from an organized air current to the surrounding atmosphere ( entrain 2def 3 ).
detrain
/ diːˈtreɪn /
verb
- to leave or cause to leave a railway train, as passengers, etc
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Derived Forms
- deˈtrainment, noun
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- de·trainment noun
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Example Sentences
A few short halts at stations, and we detrain at Suez, to resume our journey by sea; we have completed the overland portion of it.
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One unit took four and a half hours to detrain and several have taken more than three.
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There they were to detrain and search every boat coming down from the north.
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The troops will detrain somewhere this side the frontier, and we can all take our old seats.
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Things being as they were at that point, the Commissioner had Jenning's command detrain there.
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