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Synonyms of the word 
DERAIL → COUNTERACT - COUNTERMINE - GO - JUMP - LOCOMOTE - MOVE - SABOTAGE - SUBVERT - TRAVEL - UNDERMINE - WEAKENderail- n. A device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail.
- n. An instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic.
- v. (transitive) To cause to come off the tracks.
- v. (intransitive) To come off the tracks.
- v. (intransitive) To deviate from the previous course or direction.
- v. (transitive) To cause to deviate from a set course or direction.
counteract- v. To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on.
- v. To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate.
countermine- n. A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.
- n. An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
- n. A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.
- v. To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.
go- v. To move.
- v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
- v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
- v. (intransitive) To attend.
- v. To proceed.
- v. To follow or travel along (a path).
- v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
- v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
- v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
- v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
- v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- v. To pass, to be used up.
- v. (intransitive) To die.
- v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
- v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
- v. To break down or apart.
- v. (intransitive) To be sold.
- v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
- v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
- v. To say (something), to make a sound.
- v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
- v. To apply or subject oneself to.
- v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
- v. (intransitive) To date.
- v. To attack.
- v. To be in general; to be usually.
- v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
- n. (uncommon) The act of going.
- n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- n. An attempt, a try.
- n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- n. An act; the working or operation.
- n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
- n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
- n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
- n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
- n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
- n. A period of activity.
- n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
- n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…
jump- v. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that…
- v. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- v. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
- v. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- v. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound)…
- v. (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position…
- v. (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
- v. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
- v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
- v. (transitive) To cause to jump.
- v. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- v. (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and…
- v. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
- v. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
- v. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- v. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
- v. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
- v. (intransitive, computing) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the…
- n. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
- n. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- n. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- n. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- n. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- n. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- n. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- n. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- n. A jumping move in a board game.
- n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself…
- n. (sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over…
- n. (with on) An early start or an advantage.
- n. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured…
- n. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- n. (computing) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- adv. (obsolete) exactly; precisely.
- adj. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
- n. A kind of loose jacket for men.
locomote- v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).
move- v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
- v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
- v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
- v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
- v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
- v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
- v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
- v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
- v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
- n. The act of moving; a movement.
- n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
- n. The event of changing one's residence.
- n. A change in strategy.
- n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…
sabotage- n. A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
- n. (military) An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a…
- v. to deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.
subvert- v. (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
- v. (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
- v. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
- n. An advertisement created by subvertising.
travel- v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
- v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
- v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
- v. (transitive) To force to journey.
- v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
- n. The act of traveling.
- n. pl A series of journeys.
- n. pl An account of one's travels.
- n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
- n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
undermine- v. To dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.
- v. (figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
weaken- v. (transitive) To make weaker.
- v. (intransitive) To become weaker.
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