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deplaning

deplaning is the present participle and gerund of deplane.

Meaning of deplane

Verb

deplane (third-person singular simple present deplanes, present participle deplaning, simple past and past participle deplaned)

  1. To disembark from an airplane.
    • As we pulled to a stop, a ramp was brought up to the front door and a forklift to the rear. Both doors were opened. I instructed my staff to wait, saying that none of us should leave until the casket was off and Mrs. Kennedy had deplaned.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The Beginning”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16
    Synonyms:
    disemplane

Questions about deplaning

What is deplaning the present participle and gerund of?
Deplaning is the present participle and gerund of deplane.

Words near deplaning in the dictionary

  1. deplanes
  2. deplanetize
  3. deplanetized
  4. deplanetizes
  5. deplanetizing
  6. deplaning
  7. deplant
  8. deplantation
  9. deplantations
  10. deplanted
  11. deplanting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deplaning (page history and authors); deplane (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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