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disbarked

disbarked is the simple past and past participle of disbark.

Meaning of disbark

Verb (1)

disbark (third-person singular simple present disbarks, present participle disbarking, simple past and past participle disbarked)

  1. (transitive) To strip (a tree, etc.) of bark.
    • Lieutenant G. Drummon confirm'd what others had told me, of the great noiſe, like the diſcharge of Muskets, that they hear in the wooden houſes, whoſe Walls are made of Fir-trees (unſquar'd, and only diſbark'd,) upon very intenſe Froſts; […]1663, Robert Boyle, “An Appendix Containing Some Promiscuous Experiments & Observations Relating to the Precedent History of Cold. [Particulars Referable to the XIX. Title.]”, in New Experiments and...
    Synonyms:
    bark, excorticate

Verb (2)

disbark (third-person singular simple present disbarks, present participle disbarking, simple past and past participle disbarked)

  1. (obsolete) To disembark.
    • The ship we moor on these obscure abodes; / Disbark the sheep, an offering to the gods1725–1726, Homer, “Book 9”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

Questions about disbarked

What is disbarked the simple past and past participle of?
Disbarked is the simple past and past participle of disbark.

Words near disbarked in the dictionary

  1. disbandment
  2. disbandments
  3. disbands
  4. disbar
  5. disbark
  6. disbarked
  7. disbarking
  8. disbarks
  9. disbarment
  10. disbarments
  11. disbarrable

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