to derail
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4.9
- verb
- /dɪˈreɪl/
:
descarrilar
- In November 2009, a bomb derailed the Nevsky Express, the high-speed train connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg, killing nearly 30 passengers.
- derailed train
There's been all these fires, all these railroad, these trains getting derailed, all kinds of crazy things going wrong.
- There's been all these fires, all these railroad, these trains getting derailed, all kinds of crazy things going wrong.
Examples
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At least two people were killed when a freight train hauling coal derailed west of Baltimore late Monday.
Blog text (4) -
Another bomb had derailed the same train in August 2007, although no one was killed.
Academic text (2010) -
Do you think they could derail a train?
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MARTIN: How could a pickup truck derail a train, man?
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Now, we hit it at 70 miles an hour, we're gonna derail for sure.
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Piece by piece, the track where the train derailed is taken apart.
Blog text (11) -
A train derailed across the highway.
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The train had finally derailed and the cars were all overturned.
Fiction book (1993) -
The train derailed after hitting a large rock on the tracks.
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Emergency crews rushed to the scene after a freight train derailed near the station.
Synonyms
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7.7
To leave the rails, as when a train has an accident
Phrasal Verbs
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word derail comes from the parts de- 'off' and rail 'rail'. So it literally means to send a train 'off the rail' and make it leave the tracks.