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disbarks

disbarks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 disbarks

What is disbarks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Disbarks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of disbark.

Words near disbarks in the dictionary

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

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