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Sidetrack
01
a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
sidetracks
to sidetrack
01
to deviate from a main course to another
Grammatical Information
Composition
Compound
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
sidetrack
3rd person singular
sidetracks
Present participle
sidetracking
Past simple
sidetracked
Past participle
sidetracked
Examples
He was sidetracked by a phone call and forgot to finish his report.
Lexical Tree
sidetrack
side
track
