What caused the train derailment?
Source: tatoeba (8910831)
Derailment
Synonyms for "derailment" (1 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
3 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
24 translations across 17 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- descarrilament noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 出軌 /出轨 noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Czech
1 entries- vykolejení noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Danish
1 entries- afsporing noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Dutch
1 entries- ontsporing noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Finnish
1 entries- raiteilta suistuminen noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
French
1 entries- déraillement noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
German
1 entries- Entgleisung noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Hungarian
4 entries- elterelés noun (an instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic)
- eltérítés noun (an instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic)
- kisiklasztás noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
- kisiklatás noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Italian
1 entries- deragliamento noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Japanese
1 entries- 脱線 noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- avsporing noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- avsporing noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Portuguese
1 entries- descarrilamento noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Russian
2 entries- круше́ние noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
- сход с ре́льсов noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Spanish
1 entries- descarrilamiento noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Swedish
1 entries- urspårning noun (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The suspected cause of the derailment is a landslide.
Source: tatoeba (8975227)
The train was traveling from Aberdeen to Glasgow when the derailment occurred.
Source: tatoeba (8975228)
The length ganger saw the train passing with the van derailed and promptly telephoned the Sandbach signalman, who restored his signals to danger, but not in time to stop the train before the final derailment occurred.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.