Debrief

//diːˈbɹiːf//

Synonyms for "debrief" (23 found)

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Translations

12 translations across 4 languages.

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French

1 entries
  • débriefer verb (to question someone after a military mission in order to obtain intelligence)

German

4 entries
  • (eingehend) befragen verb (to question someone after a military mission in order to obtain intelligence)
  • (eingehend) unterrichten verb (to inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner)
  • nachbesprechen verb (to question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project in order to learn from mistakes etc.)
  • vernehmen verb (to question someone after a military mission in order to obtain intelligence)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • kifaggat verb (to question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project in order to learn from mistakes etc.)
  • kihallgat verb (to question someone after a military mission in order to obtain intelligence)
  • kikérdez verb (to question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project in order to learn from mistakes etc.)
  • kiértékel verb (to inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner)

Italian

2 entries
  • fare il punto verb (to inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner)
  • fare un bilancio verb (to inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner)

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It's important to debrief subjects after an experiment.

Source: tatoeba (5611887)

American authorities are still unsure of the circumstances surrounding the crews' detention, Carter said, in part because they have not yet been able "to fully debrief the sailors."

Source: tatoeba (11881323)

But, for whatever combination of reasons - and, to be fair, he'd been blasted in the face by shrapnel, was probably badly concussed, and, indeed, would actually remember nothing from the battle after he'd been hit when he was later debriefed - aside from two destroyers left behind to help Hiei, the rest of the Japanese forces withdrew north just before 0300 in the morning.

Source: wiktionary

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