detrain
Americanverb
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Present
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detrainsimple
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detrainssimple
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have detrainedperfect
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has detrainedperfect
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am detrainingprogressive
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are detrainingprogressive
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is detrainingprogressive
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have been detrainingperfect progressive
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has been detrainingperfect progressive
Past
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detrainedsimple
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had detrainedperfect
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was detrainingprogressive
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were detrainingprogressive
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had been detrainingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of detrain
Example Sentences
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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
Among the passengers to detrain was a man in a long black coat.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath
My orders were to take up a line, which was at present covered by the 51st Division, between Robecq and Calonne and for that object to detrain and move forward immediately.
From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Geoffrey Keith Rose
Orders to detrain were given at 8:29 a. m.
From The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces by William Elmer Bachman
I wonder what my ancestor from Scotland thought when he detrained at Los Angeles in the 1880s to take ownership of a farm in the San Fernando Valley nearby.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2017
Mr. Del Gatto maneuvered the Jeep into an elevator; the Waldorf has one big enough, just as it has an all-but-secret railroad platform where President Franklin Delano Roosevelt detrained in 1944.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2015
Someone else discovered that when Bogdan Filoff detrained in Vienna at 6:17 the next evening, he was greeted by the Bulgarian Minister to Germany.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chemists detrained at Durham, where arrangements had been made to convey them by bus the twelve miles to Chapel Hill.
From Time Magazine Archive
These troops were detrained at Menin and were transported by motor lorry along the Menin-Gelevelt road.
From Night Bombing with the Bedouins by Robert Henry Reece
In fact, a recent study involving men in their 50s to 70s investigated the effects of completing a resistance training regimen, followed by a detraining period, then a retraining period, each consisting of 12 weeks.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2022
Why did the dead man obsess over a newsreel image of Mrs Bathurst detraining at Paddington?
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012
The destroyer Warrington was chosen by the Navy to convey Their Majesties from Sandy Hook to the Battery after detraining at Red Bank on their way from Washington to the New York World's Fair.
From Time Magazine Archive
At any rate our party boarded the train and fortunately found it brought them very shortly to Berguette Station, where the rest of the Battalion were just detraining.
From The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by W. C. C. Weetman
Laigne and St. Colombre were passed and La Tracey, the detraining point, was reached at 3 a. m.,
From The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces by William Elmer Bachman
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