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debarking

debarking is the present participle and gerund of debark.

Meaning of debark

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

Verb (3)

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

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

Questions about debarking

What is debarking the present participle and gerund of?
Debarking is the present participle and gerund of debark.

Words near debarking in the dictionary

  1. debarkation
  2. debarkations
  3. debarked
  4. debarker
  5. debarkers
  6. debarking
  7. debarks
  8. debarment
  9. debarments
  10. debarnacle
  11. debarnacled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: debarking (page history and authors); debark (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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