English-French translations for derail

• dérailler
  Ils ont toutefois suffi à éviter un échec et à empêcher le train de l’ADD de dérailler. However, it was enough to avoid failure and to prevent the DDA train from derailing.
  Mais en même temps, nous avons toujours su qu'un tel élan pouvait dérailler à tout moment. But at the same time we always knew that this new momentum could derail at any moment.
  J’ai donc choisi de ne pas faire dérailler les perspectives financières qui viennent d’être convenues. I have therefore chosen not to derail the financial perspective that has now been agreed on.
• capoter
  Vous avez tout fait capoter, et c'est dommage. You have derailed it, and that is a pity.
  Il ne faut pas les laisser faire capoter le processus d'élargissement. We must not allow them to derail enlargement.

Definition of derail

• A device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail
• An instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic
• To cause to come off the tracks
• To come off the tracks
• To cause to deviate from a set course or direction

Examples

• The derail was placed deliberately so that the train would fall into the river.
• The train was destroyed when it was derailed by the penny.
• The conversation derailed once James brought up politics.
• The protesting students derailed the professors lecture.

Related words

• derailment
• derailed
• derailleur