detrain

present singular third person detrains · participle present detraining · participle past detrained · past detrained

1. intransitiverail transportTo exit from a train; to disembark.

   If you plan to detrain at the next stop, please begin gathering your belongings.

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   As the train came to a halt at the depot, Anne detrained swiftly and ran toward the river.

   Lucy, loved by everyone in her family, refused to detrain and insisted on staying aboard for the entire journey.

   At Bouira the detachment detrained, and the balance of the journey was made in the saddle.

   1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 57

   Here my party detrained, but the train proceeded to Souk Ahras via Duvivier.

   1944 January and February, Major J. C. F. Lloyd Williamson, “Ambulance Trains in Algeria and Tunisia”, in Railway Magazine, page 6

   Arriving at York under the station's magnificent curved roof is always a delight. Detraining, I ponder my next move.

   2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 49

   Antonyms: entrain

2. transitiverail transportTo remove (a passenger or passengers) from a train; to evacuate (passengers) from a train.

   Following the accident passengers were detrained through the rear cab.

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   The trouble occurred on the 10.5 a.m. Paddington-Bristol trip, when gangers' tools left on the track near Swindon punctured one of the unit's fuel tanks and the passengers had to be detrained to wait for the down "Merchant Venturer".

   1961 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 122

   Antonyms: entrain

3. To reduce one's training, particularly during the offseason, in preparation for a cycle of retraining.
4. climatologyTo transfer air from an organized air current to the surrounding atmosphere.