derailed

Meaning

of Derail

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

disabled ruined disrupted crippled inhibited derail moonstruck schizophrenic brainsick derailment derailing

Antonyms

en route

Phrases with the word

be derailed

Anagrams

deadlier

Examples

Democracy derailed is democracy denied. Chaka Fattah

There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management. Amanda Marshall

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely. Laura Hillenbrand

The fundamental inability to grasp the fact that real leadership is accepting that you are merely another cog in the wheel has derailed many careers and deranged many managers. Damien Richardson

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. Henry Louis Gates

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. Joni Mitchell