Definitions for detrain

detrain de·train

Spelling: [dee-treyn]
IPA: /diˈtreɪn/

Detrain is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 310 anagrams from letters in detrain (adeinrt).

Definitions for detrain

verb (used without object)

  1. to alight from a railway train; arrive by train.
  2. Meteorology. to transfer air from an organized air current to the surrounding atmosphere (opposed to entrain2 (def 3.)).

Origin of detrain

First recorded in 1880-85; de- + train

Examples for detrain

It would take three days for all troops to detrain, so I sought the earliest opportunity of finding Miss Goche.

There they were to detrain and search every boat coming down from the north.

The troops will detrain somewhere this side the frontier, and we can all take our old seats.

Among the passengers to detrain was a man in a long black coat.

Orders to detrain for an embarkation center were momentarily expected.

One unit took four and a half hours to detrain and several have taken more than three.

A few short halts at stations, and we detrain at Suez, to resume our journey by sea; we have completed the overland portion of it.

Word Value for detrain
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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