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detrain

[ dee-treyn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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 /

Origin of detrain¹

First recorded in 1880–85; de- + train

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.

One unit took four and a half hours to detrain and several have taken more than three.

There they were to detrain and search every boat coming down from the north.

The troops will detrain somewhere this side the frontier, and we can all take our old seats.

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

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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