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Definition of Disembark

1. Verb. Go ashore. "The passengers disembarked at Southampton"

Definition of Disembark

1. v. t. To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.

2. v. i. To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark.

Definition of Disembark

1. Verb. To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark. ¹

2. Verb. To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a train or airplane; to debark. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disembark

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disembark

Literary usage of Disembark

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... by Almeida—The central junta impatient for the arrival of the English array- Sir David Baird arrives at Coruna; is refused permission to disembark his ..."

2. Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of by John Gabriel Stedman (1813)
"The Troops on Board—Again ordered to disembark—Great Dejection—Mutiny—Insolent Conduct of an Owca Negro Captain—Near two hundred Sick sent to ..."

3. 1812; the War, and Its Moral: A Canadian Chronicle by William Foster Coffin (1864)
"Force at his disposal. His dispositions. MacNeil of the 8th. American approach —disembark in Humber Bay—Gallant resistance—Slaughter of the Grenadiers. ..."

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