Definitions for detrains

detrains de·train

Spelling: [dee-treyn]
IPA: /diˈtreɪn/

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

You can make 659 anagrams from letters in detrains (adeinrst).

Definitions for detrains

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 detrains

First recorded in 1880-85; de- + train

Examples for detrains

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

Orders to detrain for an embarkation center were momentarily expected.

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for detrains
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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