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
Colonel Kirby left the train and spoke with the general, and then gave the order for us to detrain at once; and we did so very swiftly, men, and horses, and baggage.
From Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy
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
To our utter disgust, after standing for hours in a siding of the station, chatting to all sorts and conditions of the species soldier, the order came to detrain.
From In the Ranks of the C.I.V. by Erskine Childers
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
Next day the militia detrained at Tipton, marched through crowds of hostile farmers to the Cedar County fair grounds, where it encamped.
From Time Magazine Archive
Late Saturday afternoon he and Mrs. Roosevelt entrained at Washington, detrained at Philadelphia, drove into Franklin Field a few blocks from the convention hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
The crest thus secured, the Manchester detrained under its cover at 2.30 p.m. about three miles south-west of Elandslaagte.
From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office
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
Eventually we got off in two trains, and detraining at Leagrave marched the last three miles to Luton, where we arrived in the early hours of August 16th.
From The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by W. C. C. Weetman
We had reliable reports that the detraining of troops was rapidly proceeding at Lille and Courtrai.
From 1914 by John Denton Pinkstone French, Earl of Ypres
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