Crossword clues for derail
derail
- Leave the tracks
- Get off track
- Run off the tracks
- Jump the tracks
- Jump the track
- Go off-track
- Get off track?
- Get off the track
- Wreck, as plans
- Waylay, as a conversation
- Upset, as a plan
- Thwart, as plans
- Run off the track
- Redirect, as a conversation
- Put off the tracks
- Put off the track
- Knock off-track
- Knock off the track
- Go off the train tracks
- Get thrown off track
- Get off-track?
- Force off the track, as a train or a discussion
- Foil, as a plan
- Deflect from a plan
- Come off tracks
- Cause failure
- Bring to a sudden stop
- Become untracked?
- Wreck, in a way
- Wreck, as a train
- Foul up, as plans
- Lose track?
- Throw off track
- Go off track?
- Throw a monkey wrench into
- Interrupt
- Upset the Yankee Clipper
- Play hob with toy trains
- Sabotage an iron horse
- Force an iron horse to go off course
- Stop the iron horse
- Sabotage the limited
- Sabotage a train
- Throw off course
- Upset the iron horse's course
- Go off the tracks
- Cause to leave the tracks
- Wilfully divert something from its intended course
- Redirect Queen entering European parliament
- Go astray
- Go wrong
- Go off the track
- Throw off the tracks
- Knock off track
- Ruin, as plans
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Derail \De*rail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Derailed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Derailing.]
To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a
locomotive.
--Lardner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause to come off the tracks. 2 (context intransitive English) To come off the tracks. 3 (context intransitive English) To deviate from the previous course or direction. 4 (context transitive English) To cause to deviate from a set course or direction.
WordNet
v. cause to run off the tracks; "they had planned to derail the trains that carried atomic waste"
run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks" [syn: jump]
Wikipedia
A derail or derailer is a device used to prevent fouling of a rail track (anything being present on the track: a person, a train, a branch, etc.) by unauthorized movements of trains or unattended rolling stock. As the name suggests, it works by derailing the equipment as it rolls over or through the device.
Usage examples of "derail".
And if my life was sought, there was no reason to derail a freight train in Oklahoma City a year ago.
In theory, there should have been nothing the meddling American could do to derail Gomorrah, but Khan was not inclined to take chances where Seven was concerned.
Walker will be trying to derail production of the A-100 by hyping figures the government will spend on the program.
The Pioneer had derailed in Boise on that exact same spot back in 1993.
That would have thrown a spanner in the works and derailed the whole M16-Watergate operation.
A fit of wet, violent coughing derailed his explanation, and he dabbed at his sweaty brow with a well-worn handkerchief.
There was only one way she knew to work independent of him, to prevent him from derailing her case.
He was receiving payments in exchange for the information and of course had the added incentive of derailing a Navy project.
For what deference can be given to a name, though not in itself a thing of dishonor, which represents the failure to derail the evitable fate which wrecks the race of man again and again.
The line was blocked, derailing attempt, they broke it up between Anglet and Bayonne, train was delayed two hours.
Most of all, having trouble focusing on discussion: Single unanswered question kept intruding, clamoring for answer, derailing extraneous thoughts.
Carlotta had already begun the next step in her simplified explanation, but now she paused in midword, derailed by surprise.
Descroix to actively seek to derail the negotiating process, we were able to feed her certain selected information which helped move her at least a bit in the direction we wanted.
Strategy Committee is already working on a plan to at least destabilize and hopefully permanently derail the Talbott annexation.
It had also derailed the effort by the United States to separate the coastal country of Delmonico from its hostile neighbor, Rebelia, and bring it one step closer to the European Union and NATO.