Derail has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
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.
Broader Terms (hypernyms)