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Derail   Listen
verb
Derail  v. t.  (past & past part. derailed; pres. part. derailing)  To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Derail" Quotes from Famous Books



... mother, as Mrs. Fenwick was here...." Slow, slight, acquiescent nods stopped him; they were enough to derail any speech except the multiplication-table or the House-that-Jack-built! But she waited with exemplary patience for certainty that the train had stopped. Then spoke as one that gives a commission to speech, and observes its execution at a distance. Her ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan



Words linked to "Derail" :   move, jump, countermine, sabotage, locomote, travel, counteract



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