verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a train derails/is derailed (= comes off the rails )
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Most of the passengers escaped injury when their train was derailed.
a train derails/is derailed (= comes off the rails )
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Most of the passengers escaped injury when their train was derailed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
train
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Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time.
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There is no need to risk derailing the peace train once again.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Forty-five people were injured when a passenger train derailed near Ottumwa, Iowa.
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Radicals are trying to derail the peace process.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A mainline railway train was derailed by the car.
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Bidding on the first of the plants opened in November, but opponents are fighting hard to derail the plan.
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Borrowing thematically from Medea, this world premier unfolds as she attempts to derail the wedding, prompting Cortez to vow revenge.
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Central Promenade 1984: a car is pulled clear of the track after derailing in sand. 1.
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However, two important developments occurred to derail the peace process.
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It also ignores the possibility that the story will be wholly or partly derailed somewhere along the line.
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It was on that stretch of track that the Sunset Limited derailed in October near Hyder.
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Legislation to derail these plans was voted on by the Senate last year.