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derail English

Meaning derail meaning

What does derail mean?

derail

— verb run off or leave the rails the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks — verb cause to run off the tracks they had planned to derail the trains that carried atomic waste

Synonyms derail synonyms

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derail English » English

jump go off the rails fall off run off on-off offtrack make-and-break key getting-off the rails displace disorbit dislodge dislocate disjunctor deviate derailment derailing switch circuit changer be derailed

Conjugation derail conjugation

How do you conjugate derail?

derail · verb

Examples derail examples

How do I use derail in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

I couldn't let one person derail that.
Not to change the subject, but there were times when his dogged dedication threatened to derail it all.
Derail it? That means killing everybody on board!
Get a derail. Bury him.
We'll derail at 90.
However, a trainload of propane gas had the bad taste to derail near Galveston and there's a whole town that just might blow up.
Derail her.
Derail her!
You say derail, then we derail.
Superintendent MacDonald wants to derail her.
A train doesn't derail by itself.
I hope that this brings to an end these wanton acts of destruction as well as the crass attempts by Mr. Ittok's Tribal Council to use them as a public-relations tool to derail the timely completion of the Aegis-1 refinery.
Derail a train and go on a passive resistance spree!
I still don't know why we couldn't just derail that bloody munitions train.
Derail a troop train, even.
Oh, no. You see, the standard procedure. in such an emergency would be to derail the train.
Derail it? In the middle of the yard?
Get her on the spur in Jordan. Derail her.
Derail her! I don't wanna lose the bridge!
Derail her. That's my order.
Let's hope the train didn't derail.
Miss Stoeger, I have a note from my tennis instructor. and he would prefer it if I didn't expose myself to any training. that might derail his teachings.
He's going to derail us.
The younger Darvin's mission was to derail Federation colonization efforts by poisoning a shipment of grain which was. which is stored aboard the station.
He's saying that the dead refugees were a deliberate action to derail the trade agreement.
You're not concerned that public knowledge of your wife's trysts. could derail your diplomatic ambitions?
Look, this darkie is obviously being used in an attempt to derail my campaign.
It is possible that someone's trying to send a message, derail the summit.
Congressman Finn would not only prevent closing the base in his district, he would make it his life's mission to derail the entire process.
Let's suppose your husband begged you to get pregnant-- begged you--and out of the goodness of your heart, you agreed, even though it might derail your career.
I think you'd derail this account.
The TV spots. it's nationwide. - I think you'd derail this account. - The TV spots. it's nationwide.
You can't let sentimentality derail everything that we've worked so hard for.

News and current affairs

They worried that, if these problems emerged, they would derail reform measures and erode the public support needed to press on.
On the anti-torture protocol, the US sought to derail the creation of a universal system of visits to places of detention, under an optional protocol to the Convention Against Torture.
They will gradually reorient their growth models to make them more sustainable - an effort that occasional bouts of global financial-market instability will shake, but not derail.
While the obstacles are not yet sufficiently serious to derail the ongoing recovery, only a fool would gloss over them.
But they are unlikely to derail his government.
It can even drive Europe to modernize its governance framework, which allows a few small countries to derail decisions supported by the vast majority of EU members.
Only then will monetary authorities gain a better understanding of when and how bubbles can derail an economy, and what can be done to prevent that outcome.
But the realization this autumn of even some of the risks described here could derail the global economy's still-wobbly recovery.
When peace appears to be close at hand, radicals on one side of the conflict or the other provoke an explosion to derail it.
We can only hope that the American public will reject not just the insistent calls to derail the construction of the Park 51 project, but also the contested assumptions that underpin opposition to it.
For their part, Russia and China have blocked three resolutions condemning the Syrian regime, and Russia has worked hard - with evident success - to derail any military intervention in Syria.
The eurozone crisis did not derail recovery; it is the result of a lack of recovery.
A dangerous situation may well emerge, as this report threatens to derail the whole process.
Perhaps al-Qaeda's motive in targeting Turkey is to derail a Muslim nation from its progress toward joining the European Union?
Yet it would be dangerous to redress past imbalances solely at the expense of traditional beneficiaries, especially because they remain powerful enough to derail the peace process.
Western governments have been accused of interference, but it is unlikely that any want to derail their relations with China, especially during an economic crisis.
Of course, with China's household sector holding a relatively small share of equities compared to real estate, the current stock-market slump is unlikely to derail the economy.
But the latest developments in the Greek crisis show that the exact opposite is true - it's European banks' lack of capital that threatens to derail European and global growth.
In the US, Republican politicians - congressmen, governors and presidential candidates - are trying to derail the resettlement of a miniscule number of Syrian refugees (just 10,000) in the US.
For starters, political risks could derail progress.
For all our sakes, I hope that the future does not derail China's economic progress, though it will be a surprise if it does not challenge its arthritic and adamantine political system.
Less money and more conscripts will slow down, and possibly derail, the Weizsaecker reforms.
Unfortunately, a recent decision on one key digital issue - data privacy - threatens to derail that effort.
The other scenario is when the two sides have already engaged in bilateral peace talks, paid the domestic political price, and reached agreement on most issues, though some matters remain unresolved and threaten to derail the process.
I hope that this issue does not derail the Chinese effort to use the Olympics as an opportunity to show the world that their country has emerged again as one of the world's leaders.
Hamas refuses all direct peace negotiations with Israel, and has vowed to derail the current talks through violence.

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