verb
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Origin of detrain
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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
One unit took four and a half hours to detrain and several have taken more than three.
From Servants of the Guns by Jeffery, Jeffery E.
Among the passengers to detrain was a man in a long black coat.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by MacGrath, Harold
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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