disentrain

Verb

disentrain (third-person singular simple present disentrains, present participle disentraining, simple past and past participle disentrained)

1. To disembark from a train.
   • French trains of all kinds travelled faster than German ones, this being made possible - in the case of troop transports - by an arrangement which required the men to take their provisions along, instead of having them disentrain in order to be fed at the stations.1980, Martin van Creveld, Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton, →ISBN, page 86
   • North American continent; one could not cross the country on the same passenger railroad, but had to disentrain and wait for a connection.2008, George Davison Winius, The Brats of Briarcliff, →ISBN, page 141
2. To precipitate out of a flowing current.
   • In certain cases, it is possible to entrain enough of the solids continually in the effluent gas stream and then to disentrain them again away from the bed.1963, W. D. Jamrack, Rare metal extraction by chemical engineering techniques
   • It is better to use the receiving silo or an oversized cyclone to disentrain the solid from the air.1981, G. Butters, Plastics pneumatic conveying and bulk storage, page 140
3. To disrupt an organism's circadian rhythm so that it is not aligned with its environment.
   • Since different rhythms appear to have different ranges of entrainment, what happens is that as the period of the light-dark cycle is stretched, rhythms disentrain, but not all at once.1988, Jeremy Campbell, Winston Churchill's Afternoon Nap, →ISBN
   • The cycles of the body are disentrained from the cycles of the regenerative Earth that formed us. But we needn't fly to be disentrained and drained.1999, Bruce Wilshire, Wild Hunger: The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction, →ISBN, page xi
4. (broadly) To disrupt a body's homeostatic patterns.
   • Because dexamethasone and naloxone successfully reduce body weight, blood lipid and glucose levels, and blood pressure in Obese/SHR (to be published), the question arose whether prevention of corpulency by daily exercise would also disentrain the genetically programmed obesity and hypertension.1983, Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
   • In particular, hypnotic dissociation appears to disentrain the conscious facility responsible for our "free won't," the neurological circuitry that enables us to voluntarily suppress impulses that are on the verge of being executed.2008, Edward Watts Morton Bever, The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe, →ISBN
5. To extinguish a conditioned association.
   • We have seen that consciousness can be viewed as an integration of neural functions, which are entrained and disentrained from moment to moment.1990, Charles D. Laughlin, John McManus, Eugene G. D'Aquili, Brain, Symbol & Experience
   • There are several neurofeedback-related approaches that make use of auditory and/or visual stimulation (AVS) to entrain or disentrain brain electrical activity.2007, James R. Evans, Handbook of Neurofeedback: Dynamics and Clinical Applications, →ISBN