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
They had seen no troops detrain, or pitch camp.
From The Call of the Cumberlands by Buck, Charles Neville
They slumbered on as best they could in their box-car berths, while the special was pulled in on a siding, to remain until daylight when the order to detrain was to be issued.
From The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces by Bachman, William Elmer
"No doubt we shall go on as soon as the troops detrain."
From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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
Snatcher Robinson's wife started for Indianapolis with the money, detrained at Terre Haute, unconsciously avoided a taxi proffered by a D. O. I. man in disguise, motored to Indianapolis.
From Time Magazine Archive
When it stopped at Casper, Wyo., he finally detrained, and the President, going out to the back platform, made an effective little talk.
From Time Magazine Archive
On August 30 the 42nd Division from the East, detrained at Rheims and took up positions at Sault-Saint-R�my and Saint-Loup-en-Champagne on August 31, to the left of the 9th and 11th Corps.
From Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) by Various
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 10th August, 1916, the Battalion entrained at Godewaersvelde, and detraining at Candas, marched to Heuzecourt and spent four days resting.
From The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry France, April 1915-November 1918 by Ainsworth, Ralph Bignell, Sir
If, however, he were forced to retire, he was directed to do so in the direction of St. Omer, where the 3rd Corps was now detraining.
From 1914 by French, John Denton Pinkstone, Earl of Ypres
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