Detains vs Detrains - What's the difference?
detains | detrains |
(detain)
Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
To put under custody.
To keep back or from; to withhold.
* Jeremy Taylor
(detrain)
(rail transport) To exit from a train; to disembark
(rail transport) to remove a passenger or passengers from a train; to evacuate passengers from a train.
(of an athlete) to reduce one's training, particularly during the offseason, in preparation for a cycle of retraining.
As verbs the difference between detains and detrains
is that detains is (detain) while detrains is (detrain).detains
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* * *detain
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(en verb)- Detain not the wages of the hireling.
detrains
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* * * *detrain
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(en verb)- If you plan to detrain at the next stop, please begin gathering your belongings.
- Following the accident passengers were detrained through the rear cab