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disembark

[ dis-em-bahrk ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to go ashore from a ship.
  2. to leave an aircraft or other vehicle.


verb (used with object)

  1. to remove or unload (cargo or passengers) from a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.

disembark

/ ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑːk; dɪsˌɛmbɑːˈkeɪʃən /

verb

  1. to land or cause to land from a ship, aircraft, etc

    several passengers disembarked

    we will disembark the passengers

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • disembarkation, noun
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Other Words From

  • dis·em·bar·ka·tion [dis-em-bahr-, key, -sh, uh, n], disem·barkment noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of disembark1

1575–85; < Middle French desembarquer, equivalent to des- dis- 1 + embarquer to embark
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Example Sentences

Three years earlier, the Pilgrims had disembarked at Plymouth Rock.

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Once contact tracing has been completed, they will be allowed to disembark, but it’s unclear how long that will take.

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After hundreds of passengers fell ill with the coronavirus in February, nobody on the ship was allowed to disembark for weeks.

They disembarked at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Auditorium.

After disembarking, he headed to one of the airport’s covid-19 testing stations.

Once the ships that rescued them dock at port, they disembark.

The sea passage takes about half an hour of an 11-hour journey, and the passengers never have to disembark.

On the 3rd of September we ran into the port of Singapore; but it was so late in the evening, that we could not disembark.

The reader sees his fellow passengers, the characters, disembark, waves them good-bye–and turns to sail for other isles!

This meant, "Divisions of boats to assemble round ships for which they are told off, to disembark infantry and artillery."

After a short interval, his excellency returned, and intimated that the royal party would disembark in half an hour.

Upon Flamininus bidding him disembark, he stood up on board and refused to leave his ship.

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