verb
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Origin of detrain
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They had hopped on in Denver and would detrain at the end of the line.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2022
The Pennsylvania alone will handle more than 300 special trains, will detrain some 50,000 men at Manhattan, has appealed to their mothers and sweethearts not to stand around in the already crowded station.
From Time Magazine Archive
One unit took four and a half hours to detrain and several have taken more than three.
From Servants of the Guns by Jeffery, Jeffery E.
Hippy Wingate stepped from the train that had just pulled into the little Red River Valley station and turned to observe Tom Gray and the others of the Overland Riders detrain.
From Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
They detrain Dervish troops at this point," said he, "and march them to the shore to be shipped to Gallipoli, because they riot and make trouble if kept in barracks in Skutari or Stamboul.
From Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Mundy, Talbot
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