Word.ws English Dictionary

disentrained

disentrained is the simple past and past participle of disentrain.

Adjective

disentrained (not comparable)

  1. Involving circadian rhythms that are no aligned with the natural environment.
    • Advancement of REM sleep to an earlier position within the sleep period was also exhibited in the sleep of disentrained subjects in the form of increased durations of the first REM sleep episodes of major sleep periods.1987, Angelos Halaris, Chronobiology and Psychiatric Disorders, page 126
    • The Monday morning blahs occur because inner clocks, uncorrected, disentrained and allowed to go their own sweet way, have made inner time irrelevant to outer time.1988, Jeremy Campbell, Winston Churchill's Afternoon Nap, →ISBN
  2. Having precipitated out of a current.
    • The disentrained solids are conveyed through a two-stage shaker screen to remove most of the fine glass and other inerts.1977, Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977
    • When the particle contacts the plate, it becomes disentrained.1993, Paul N. Cheremisinoff, Pollution Reduction and Contaminant Control - Volume 6, →ISBN, page 520

Meaning of 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
  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
  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
  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
  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

Questions about disentrained

What does disentrained mean?
Disentrained means involving circadian rhythms that are no aligned with the natural environment.
What is disentrained the simple past and past participle of?
Disentrained is the simple past and past participle of disentrain.
What part of speech is disentrained?
Disentrained is an adjective.

Words near disentrained in the dictionary

  1. disentrail
  2. disentrailed
  3. disentrailing
  4. disentrails
  5. disentrain
  6. disentrained
  7. disentraining
  8. disentrainment
  9. disentrainments
  10. disentrains
  11. disentrance

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disentrained (page history and authors); disentrain (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “disentrained.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/disentrained. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.