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Derail has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

A device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail.

Verb
1

cause to run off the tracks

"they had planned to derail the trains that carried atomic waste"

2

run off or leave the rails

"the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"

3

To cause to come off the tracks.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
sabotage travel
Rhyming Words
ail jail mail hail gail sail tail fail dail zail rail vail kail pail nail wail brail shail skail flail
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