detrain

American

[dee-treyn] / diˈtreɪn /

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 (opposed to entrain).

detrain British

/ diːˈtreɪn /

verb

to leave or cause to leave a railway train, as passengers, etc

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Origin of detrain

First recorded in 1880–85; de- + train

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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

Things being as they were at that point, the Commissioner had Jenning's command detrain there.

From Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by MacBeth, R. G. (Roderick George)

The men would detrain, march through the town, and disappear.

From Under Fire For Servia by Fiske, Colonel James

The Commander-in-Chief may be forced to ask Marshal French to co-operate with British Divisions as they detrain and without waiting for the whole of the detrainment to be carried out.

From 1914 by French, John Denton Pinkstone, Earl of Ypres

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