derail
pronunciation
How to pronounce derail in British English:
UK [dɪˈreɪl]
How to pronounce derail in American English:
US [dɪˈreɪl]
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- Verb:
- cause to run off the tracks
- run off or leave the rails
Word Origin
- derail (v.)
- 1850, in both transitive and intransitive senses, from French dérailler "to go off the rails," from de- (see de-) + railler (see rail (n.1)). In general use first in U.S. Related: Derailed; derailing.
Example
- 1. It could derail the entire crisis resolution process .
- 2. Stock markets were hard hit over the following days on concerns that tighter credit conditions could derail the buy-out boom that had boosted equities on the assumption that a bid for nearly any company could be imminent .
- 3. And never let the important derail your pursuit of the most important .
- 4. How did liberals take command of higher education and derail america ?
- 5. Inflation threatens to derail emerging-market economies .