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disembark

UK/ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbɑːk//ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbɑɹk/

disembark verb: to remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore.

Verb

disembark (third-person singular simple present disembarks, present participle disembarking, simple past and past participle disembarked)

  1. (transitive) To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore
    • The general disembarked the troops.
    • Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers.1604, William Shakespeare, Othello
    Synonyms:
    land, debark
  2. (intransitive) To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a train or aircraft.
    • This time I disembark at Dumbarton Central, a station with two island platforms blessed with yellow brick buildings and iron canopies dating from 1896, and listed Grade A.2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 77
  3. (transitive) To go ashore from (a boat); to leave (a train or aircraft)
    • We disembarked the ferry.

disembark meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

disembark in Tamil

to go ashore, to leave a train or airplane
இறங்கு iṟaṅku

disembark in Urdu

کشتی سے اترنا, قدم رکھنا

disembark in Malayalam

step off, get off, leave
കപ്പലിൽ നിന്നിറങ്ങുക, കപ്പലിറങ്ങുക, ഇറങ്ങുക, എറങ്ങുക, താഴെയിറങ്ങുക, കൂട്ടംകൂട്ടമായി വാഹനത്തിൽ നിന്നിറങ്ങുക

disembark in Kannada

ಕೆಳಗಿಳಿ, ತಲಪು, ಹೊರೆಯಿಳಿಸು
More languagesFewer languages
disembark in Vietnamese
xuống xe

Examples of disembark in a sentence

  • Anand disembarks like a statesman from the Volkswagen to be garlanded immediately by five different women.
  • He gathered his studently belongings and at 5:00 pm sharp he disembarked.
  • Huge quanitities of alum and woad were disembarked each year at Southampton.

All 12 example sentences with disembark

Synonyms of disembark

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of disembark

Forms of disembark

third-person singular presentdisembarks
present participledisembarking
past participledisembarked
pastdisembarked

Past tense of disembark: disembarked

Origin of disembark

From dis- + embark.

Words formed from disembark

Words that rhyme with disembark

28 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about disembark

What does disembark mean?
Disembark means to remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore.
What is disembark in Tamil?
Disembark in Tamil is இறங்கு (iṟaṅku). See Disembark meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is disembark?
Disembark is a verb.
How do you pronounce disembark?
Disembark is pronounced /ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbɑːk/ (UK).
What is the past tense of disembark?
The past tense of disembark is disembarked.

Words near disembark in the dictionary

  1. diselenium
  2. disembalm
  3. disembalmed
  4. disembalming
  5. disembalms
  6. disembark
  7. disembarkation
  8. disembarkations
  9. disembarked
  10. disembarkee
  11. disembarkees

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disembark (page history and authors); disembark (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disembark (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); disembark (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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