Derail vs Defail - What's the difference?
derail | defail |
A device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail.
To cause to come off the tracks.
To come off the tracks.
To deviate from the previous course or direction.
To cause to deviate from a set course or direction.
As verbs the difference between derail and defail
is that derail is to cause to come off the tracks while defail is (obsolete) to cause to fail.As a noun derail
is a device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail.derail
English
(wikipedia derail)Noun
(en noun)- The derail was placed deliberately so that the train would fall into the river.
Verb
(en verb)- The train was destroyed when it was derailed by the penny.
- The conversation derailed once James brought up politics.
- The protesting students derailed the professor's lecture.
