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Definition of Debark
1. Verb. Go ashore. "The passengers disembarked at Southampton"
Generic synonyms: Land, Set Down
Derivative terms: Debarkation, Disembarkation, Disembarkment
Antonyms: Embark
Definition of Debark
1. v. t. & i. To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.
Definition of Debark
1. Verb. (transitive) To unload goods from an aircraft or ship. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To disembark. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive lumbering) To remove the bark from a tree that has been felled. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Debark
1. to unload from a ship [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Debark
Literary usage of Debark
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... an English privateer, has brought in there 2 French ships, the former, one of
king James transport ships laden with horses but debark'd, and was goeing ..."
2. A History of the One Hundred and Seventeenth Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers by James A. Mowris (1866)
"Thence up the James.—Arrive at Bermuda Hundred.—debark.—The succeeding movements,
which culminated in the Battle of Drury's Bluff. ..."
3. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1853)
"... force fifteen thousand strong was able to debark upon the island before even
the unfortunate Byng had been despatched from Spithead. ..."
4. History of the Fourth Regiment of Minnesota Infantry Volunteers During the by Alonzo Leighton Brown (1892)
"... to Join Halleck's Army Before Corinth—On the Roe—The Last Specie Payment to
Us—Testing the Steel Vest—At Fort Henry; Its Exploded Cannon—debark at Paris ..."
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