uncouple
verb (used with object)
to release the coupling or link between; disconnect; let go.
had uncoupled
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past perfectof uncouple.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The crash happened when a passenger train hit cars that had uncoupled from another train.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
Meanwhile, up in front trainmen had uncoupled the special's engine and baggage car.
From Time Magazine Archive
Led by one ardent spirit—whose motto had been similia similibus, until he lost his balance of mind—they had uncoupled the officers' car and forced the engineers to take them on.
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon
Teddy had uncoupled Car Three from the others in their rear, and the cars of his rivals were dropping behind rapidly.
From The Circus Boys on the Plains : or, the Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show by Edgar B. P. Darlington
I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail, as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb
