debrief
verb/ˌdiːˈbriːf/
/ˌdiːˈbriːf/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they debrief | /ˌdiːˈbriːf/ /ˌdiːˈbriːf/ |
| he / she / it debriefs | /ˌdiːˈbriːfs/ /ˌdiːˈbriːfs/ |
| past simple debriefed | /ˌdiːˈbriːft/ /ˌdiːˈbriːft/ |
| past participle debriefed | /ˌdiːˈbriːft/ /ˌdiːˈbriːft/ |
| -ing form debriefing | /ˌdiːˈbriːfɪŋ/ /ˌdiːˈbriːfɪŋ/ |
- debrief somebody (on something) to ask somebody questions officially, in order to get information about the task that they have just completed
- He was taken to a US airbase to be debriefed on the mission.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDebrief is used with these nouns as the object:- participant
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