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
Orders to detrain for an embarkation center were momentarily expected.
From The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces by William Elmer Bachman
"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 Burton Egbert Stevenson
My orders were to take up a line, which was at present covered by the 51st Division, between Robecq and Calonne and for that object to detrain and move forward immediately.
From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Geoffrey Keith Rose
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
Headed by dark, spectacled C. Y. Cheng, a coal expert in Szechwan during the war, 22 Chinese engineers detrained at Fushun.
From Time Magazine Archive
Late Saturday afternoon he and Mrs. Roosevelt entrained at Washington, detrained at Philadelphia, drove into Franklin Field a few blocks from the convention hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the station where the men detrained two heavy Army wagons had been awaiting them, these wagons having been sent on two days ahead.
From Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants or, Handling Their First Real Commands by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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
Frightful scene detraining, Volunteers always remind me of flustered hens on these occasions.
From Our Battalion Being Some Slight Impressions of His Majesty's Auxiliary Forces, in Camp and Elsewhere by Leonard Raven-Hill
Since detraining at Coxyde on 20th June, things had been comparatively quiet and the weather ideal.
From The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 by John W. Arthur
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