disentrains

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