Word Finder - derailed

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To cause to come off the tracks.

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The train was destroyed when it was derailed by the penny.

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To come off the tracks.

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To deviate from the previous course or direction.

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The conversation derailed once James brought up politics.

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To cause to deviate from a set course or direction; derange.

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The protesting students derailed the professor's lecture.

Her entire thought train derailed as she gaped at the man beside Katie.

It's just that I got derailed and I need to get on track.

The VCR was nearly derailed over the issue of copyrights.

The leading bogie of the third car was also derailed.

If this pressure is not relieved in some way, the train may be derailed either (I) by " climbing " the outer rail, with injury to that rail and, generally, to the corresponding wheel-flanges; (2) by overturning about the outer rail as a hinge, possibly without injury to rails or wheels; or (3) by forcing the outer rail outwards, occasionally to the extent of shearing the spikes that hold it down at the curve, thus spreading or destroying the track.

Drug and alcohol addictions, DUI arrests, and an ongoing slew of court battles have derailed Lohan and her career, making her popular for all the wrong reasons.

Kepler divined its possibility; but his thoughts, derailed (so to speak) by the false analogy of magnetism, brought him no farther than to the .rough draft of the scheme of vortices expounded in detail by Rene Descartes in his Principia Philosophiae (1644).

In 2004, she starred opposite Ben Stiller in Along Came Polly, and quickly followed-up its success with Derailed, Rumor Has It, and Friends with Money.

Although Ace has been in existence for 80 years, the company strives to provide a cutting-edge online presence and have taken steps in recent years to improve site effectiveness by identifying where customers get derailed.

Any game in which you can get derailed for hours trying to make a seesaw out of a wooden plank and a rusty paint can gets flying colors in my book.

Unfortunately, the campaign was derailed by World War II.

Either way, her intended conversation about Jonathan certainly got derailed.

The eighth and ninth vehicles derailed rear bogie only and the following vehicles derailed all wheels.

Camelot case the carrier's minimum all but derailed check to see.

It would be a tragedy if that possibility of progress were derailed by the hostage crisis.

Moreover, the train derailed at Potters Bar had no guard on board.

They said a wheel broke on a curve as the train approached the Jesus underground station and two train carriages derailed in the tunnel.

The first three wagons of the freight train each had their leading pair of wheels derailed.

What would have completely derailed lesser players (equipment screwup at the climax of the signature tune) became proof of their mastery.

Disruption after train derails - From BBC - A train partially derailed in Surrey on Monday causing major disruption for commuters.

For starters, I think I got derailed when you said your mother's name was Alexandrine.