derail
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
cause to run off the tracks
they had planned to derail the trains that carried atomic waste
Types & categories
- countermine hypernym
Related & opposite
- derailment derivation
Sense 2 verb
run off or leave the rails
the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks
Types & categories
- move hypernym
Related & opposite
- derailment derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | derailment |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | countermine |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | derailment |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | move |