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debus

debus verb: to alight or get off a bus.

Verb

debus (third-person singular simple present debusses, present participle debussing, simple past and past participle debussed)

  1. To alight or get off a bus.
    • The leading battalion […] arrived in the vicinity of Kushtia around 1400 hours and debussed.1990, K C Paval, "Indian Army After Independence", New Delhi: Lancer.

Antonyms of debus

Forms of debus

third-person singular presentdebusses
present participledebussing
past participledebussed
pastdebussed

Origin of debus

After debark (“to disembark”).

Questions about debus

What does debus mean?
Debus means to alight or get off a bus.
What part of speech is debus?
Debus is a verb.
What is the past tense of debus?
The past tense of debus is debussed.

Words near debus in the dictionary

  1. debursed
  2. debursement
  3. debursements
  4. deburses
  5. debursing
  6. debus
  7. debuscope
  8. debuscopes
  9. debushing
  10. Debusmann
  11. debusscope

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