Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain information (especially intelligence).

    (eingehend) befragen, vernehmen

  2. (transitive)To question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project, in order to learn from mistakes, etc.

    nachbesprechen

  3. (transitive)To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner.

    (eingehend) unterrichten

More definitions
  • put someone through a debriefing and make them report

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Tom debriefed Mary.

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  2. It's important to debrief subjects after an experiment.

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Translations

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By meaning 3
to question someone after a military mission in order to obtain intelligence:
to question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project in order to learn from mistakes etc.:
to inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner:

Forms

debriefs, debriefing, debriefed, debriefed
Base formdebrief · to debrief
3rd person singulardebriefs
Present participledebriefing
Past simpledebriefed
Past participledebriefed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydebrief
he, she, itdebriefs

Past simpleLesson

all personsdebriefed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave debriefed
he, she, ithas debriefed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill debrief

Word family

3 related words
Relateddebriefing
Deriveddebrieferundebriefed

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
debilitatedebitB2debrisB1debtB1debtordebug
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