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
In the afternoon stop was made at Dijon, where the troops got a chance to detrain and partake of refreshments that a corps of French Red Cross workers served at the station.
From The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces by William Elmer Bachman
The prisoners of war went on to Cologne to be put in a laager, but we were bidden to detrain at Aix-la-Chapelle.
From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
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
Headed by dark, spectacled C. Y. Cheng, a coal expert in Szechwan during the war, 22 Chinese engineers detrained at Fushun.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
A fresh army corps was immediately transported and detrained in the Lille district.
From World's War Events, Vol. I by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
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
On the one hand, our new army had not time to complete its detraining, and, on the other hand, the British Army, forced back further by the enemy, uncovered on Aug.
From New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
During the 1st, 2nd and 3rd September the move southwards was carried out by rail, the Division, less artillery, detraining at Corbie, Heilly and Méricourt.
From A Short History of the 6th Division Aug. 1914-March 1919 by Sir Thomas Owen Marden
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