derail
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dəˈɹeɪl/, /ˌdiːˈɹeɪl/
derail (plural derails)
- A device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail.
- The derail was placed deliberately so that the train would fall into the river.
- An instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic.
derail (derails, present participle derailing; past and past participle derailed)
- (transitive) To cause to come off the tracks.
- The train was destroyed when it was derailed by the penny.
- (intransitive) To come off the tracks.
- (intransitive, figurative) To deviate from the previous course or direction.
- The conversation derailed once James brought up politics.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to deviate from a set course or direction.
- The protesting students derailed the professor's lecture.
- French: dérailler
- German: entgleisen
- Italian: deragliare
- Portuguese: descarrilar, descarrilhar
- Russian: сходи́ть с ре́льсов
- Spanish: descarrilar
- French: dérailler
- German: entgleisen
- Russian: пуска́ть под отко́с
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