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
The car they had uncoupled to prevent his departure was run up and coupled again; and then, amid cheers of mournful farewell, they let him go.
From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by William Charles Henry Wood
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
The men attacked it with dismay; Corvet's shout called them away and rallied them farther back; they ran with him to the car from which he had uncoupled it.
From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer
