detrain
verb (used without object)
to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
will detrain
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future tenseof detrain.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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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 Burton Egbert Stevenson
