Derail vs Destroy - What's the difference?
derail | destroy |
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.
To cause destruction.
To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
To put down or euthanize.
(colloquial) To defeat soundly.
(computing) To remove data.
In lang=en terms the difference between derail and destroy
is that derail is to cause to deviate from a set course or direction while destroy is to put down or euthanize.As verbs the difference between derail and destroy
is that derail is to cause to come off the tracks while destroy isto damage beyond use or repair
. 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.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "derail")Derived terms
* derailmentAnagrams
* * * * * English ergative verbsdestroy
English
Verb
To damage beyond use or repair.
- The earthquake destroyed several apartment complexes.
- ''Hooligans destroy unprovoked
- ''Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate
- Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.
- The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.
