detrain

American

[dee-treyn] / diˈtreɪn /

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 (opposed to entrain).

detrain British

/ diːˈtreɪn /

verb

to leave or cause to leave a railway train, as passengers, etc

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Origin of detrain

First recorded in 1880–85; de- + train

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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

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

From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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 Childers, Erskine

She could board a sleeping car at Granville and detrain within a hundred miles of the ancient trading post—with a fast river boat to carry her the remaining distance.

From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto

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