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The meaning of DERAIL is to cause to run off the rails. How to use derail in a sentence.
DERAIL definition: 1. If a train derails or is derailed, it comes off the railway tracks. 2. to prevent a plan or…. Learn more.
to prevent a plan or process from succeeding: Renewed fighting threatens to derail the peace talks. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of derailed from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
DERAIL meaning: 1. If a train derails or is derailed, it comes off the railway tracks. 2. to prevent a plan or…. Learn more.
to cause (a train, streetcar, etc.) to run off the rails of a track. to cause to fail or become deflected from a purpose; reduce or delay the chances for success or development of: Being drafted into the army derailed his career for two years.
Definitions of derail. verb. run off or leave the rails. “the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks”. synonyms: jump. see more. verb. cause to run off the tracks. “they had planned to derail the trains that carried atomic waste”.
To derail something such as a plan or a series of negotiations means to prevent it from continuing as planned.
verb. Simple past tense and past participle of derail. Wiktionary. Synonyms: thwarted. deflected. jumped. Derailed Sentence Examples. Her entire thought train derailed as she gaped at the man beside Katie. It's just that I got derailed and I need to get on track. The VCR was nearly derailed over the issue of copyrights.
[transitive] derail something to stop a process from continuing in the way it was intended to. This latest incident could derail the peace process. It is claims of financial irregularities which could ultimately derail his campaign. The company’s plans were initially derailed by problems with licence agreements.
derail. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Trains & railways de‧rail /ˌdiːˈreɪl, dɪ-/ verb 1 [ intransitive, transitive] if a train derails or something derails it, it goes off the tracks 2 [ transitive] to spoil or interrupt a plan, agreement etc a mistake that might derail the negotiations —derailment ...
