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disembarking

disembarking is the present participle and gerund of disembark.

Meaning of disembark

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.
    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.

Noun

disembarking (plural disembarkings)

  1. A disembarkation.

Forms of disembarking

pluraldisembarkings

Questions about disembarking

What does disembarking mean?
Disembarking means a disembarkation.
What is disembarking the present participle and gerund of?
Disembarking is the present participle and gerund of disembark.
What part of speech is disembarking?
Disembarking is a noun.
What is the plural of disembarking?
The plural of disembarking is disembarkings.

Words near disembarking in the dictionary

  1. disembarked
  2. disembarkee
  3. disembarkees
  4. disembarker
  5. disembarkers
  6. disembarking
  7. disembarkings
  8. disembarkment
  9. disembarkment syndrome
  10. disembarkments
  11. disembarks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disembarking (page history and authors); disembark (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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