detrain

verb

Compounds

Combines

Forms

  • simple present : detrain
  • simple present, singular, third person : detrains
  • simple past : detrained
  • present participle : detraining
  • past participle : detrained

Senses

  • to get off a train
  • En route to the Subway she never looked back. At Forty-second Street she detrained, walked into the Knickerbocker, entered the ladies dressing room, turned her coat, redraped her hat, checked her gaiters, and sought a taxi.

  • to discharge from a train
  • The telegram should have reached Gatacre early on the evening of the 3rd, and he had collected a force of fifteen hundred men, entrained it, journeyed forty miles up the line, detrained it, and reached Reddersberg, which is ten or twelve miles from the line, by 10.30 next morning.