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debark

/dɪˈbɑːk/US/di.bɑɹk/

debark verb: to unload goods from an aircraft or ship.

Verb (1)

debark (third-person singular simple present debarks, present participle debarking, simple past and past participle debarked)

  1. (transitive) To unload goods from an aircraft or ship.
  2. (intransitive) To disembark.

Verb (2)

debark (third-person singular simple present debarks, present participle debarking, simple past and past participle debarked)

  1. (transitive) To remove the bark from a tree, especially one that has been felled.
    • Lightning completely debarked a large oak tree and set fire to a mattress of [an] adjacent home; […]1975, Storm Data, page 18
    • On these photographs, the wide strips can be seen debarked from a horse chestnut tree (left) and from a poplar (right). This seems to be typical for trees with high moisture content.2006, Tibor Horváth, Understanding Lightning and Lightning Protection: A Multimedia Teaching Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 57

Verb (3)

debark (third-person singular simple present debarks, present participle debarking, simple past and past participle debarked)

  1. (transitive) To devocalize (a dog).

debark meaning in Tamil

debark in Tamil

கரையில் இறங்கு

Forms of debark

third-person singular presentdebarks
present participledebarking
past participledebarked
pastdebarked

Origin of debark

From French débarquer, from de- (Old French des-) + barque (“bark, small ship”).

From de- + bark (“covering of tree”).

From de- + bark (“(of a dog) make the noise”).

Words formed from debark

Words that rhyme with debark

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Questions about debark

What does debark mean?
Debark means to unload goods from an aircraft or ship.
What is debark in Tamil?
Debark in Tamil is கரையில் இறங்கு. See Debark meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is debark?
Debark is a verb.
How do you pronounce debark?
Debark is pronounced /dɪˈbɑːk/ (UK).
What is the past tense of debark?
The past tense of debark is debarked.

Words near debark in the dictionary

  1. debarcation
  2. debarcations
  3. debarcoded
  4. debarcoding
  5. DeBarge
  6. debark
  7. debarkation
  8. debarkations
  9. debarked
  10. debarker
  11. debarkers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: debark (page history and authors); debark (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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