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1. Cause to run off the tracks
   "they had planned to derail the trains that carried atomic waste"
    
2. Run off or leave the rails
   "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks"
   - jump

Derived forms: derails, derailing, derailed

See also: derailment

Type of: counteract, countermine, go, locomote, move, sabotage, subvert, travel, undermine, weaken

Encyclopedia: Derail