Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To unload, as from a ship or airplane.
- intransitive verb To disembark.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To land from a ship or boat; bring to land from a vessel; disembark: as, to
debark artillery. - To leave a ship or boat, and go ashore; disembark: as, the troops debarked at four o'clock.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
unload goods from anaircraft orship . - verb intransitive To
disembark . - verb transitive, lumbering To
remove thebark from a tree that has beenfelled .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb go ashore
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Donovan eventually managed to debark the cruiser with Bruce when it weighed anchor the evening of June 9 off Plymouth.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Priscilla, my mom, and I sat silently in our own little world as we waited on the tarmac for the plane to debark.
Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011
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Onto an ashy beach we debark, just 50 yards from the remains of a Chilean base destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the late 1960's.
Richard Bangs: Mind Sex with Strangers Richard Bangs 2011
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Even Malvergne, the pilot Eddy had caught so much heat for smuggling out, succeeded in steering the USS Dallas destroyer through a narrow channel from Port Lyautey off the Moroccan coast, dodging sandbars, sunken ships, and Vichy shore fire so seventy-five U.S. Army rangers could debark and seize the nearby airport.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Priscilla, my mom, and I sat silently in our own little world as we waited on the tarmac for the plane to debark.
Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011
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Donovan eventually managed to debark the cruiser with Bruce when it weighed anchor the evening of June 9 off Plymouth.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Onto an ashy beach we debark, just 50 yards from the remains of a Chilean base destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the late 1960's.
Richard Bangs: Mind Sex with Strangers Richard Bangs 2011
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Even Malvergne, the pilot Eddy had caught so much heat for smuggling out, succeeded in steering the USS Dallas destroyer through a narrow channel from Port Lyautey off the Moroccan coast, dodging sandbars, sunken ships, and Vichy shore fire so seventy-five U.S. Army rangers could debark and seize the nearby airport.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Priscilla, my mom, and I sat silently in our own little world as we waited on the tarmac for the plane to debark.
Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011
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In Lyons, whirring machinery can debark a tree weighing more than a ton in seconds, spinning the woody cylinder into slick sheets of fiber that are transformed into plywood.
Logging Towns Revive in Quake's Wake Joel Millman 2010
bilby commented on the word debark
"The four Alfa Romeos slipped deftly into traffic surrounding St Peter's Square. They split up and spread out along the piazza perimeter, quietly unloading men at select points. The debarking guards moved into the throng of tourists and media vans on the edge of the square and instantly became invisible."
- 'Angels and Demons', Dan Brown.
February 28, 2008