Definition of disembark
: to remove to shore from a ship
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Examples of disembark in a Sentence
The plane's crew members were the last ones to disembark.
the cruise passengers disembarked as soon as they got to the terminal in Miami
Recent Examples of disembark from the Web
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Photo: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg News Mr. Trump disembarks from Air Force One at the Paya Lebar Air Base in Singapore.
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The company also gave those people the option to disembark the ship Friday and end their trip along with air transportation home.
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Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake, Kansai Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons—who had recently disembarked in Paris and were blowing apart French bourgeois conventions with their deconstructed clothes.
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Associated Press journalists saw the plane taxi down the tarmac before the North’s delegation disembarked at JFK International Airport.
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Associated Press journalists saw the plane taxi down the tarmac before the North's delegation disembarked at JFK International Airport.
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At that point, the subway car turns into a shimmering hyperloop pod, and Gregg T. disembarks safely in Washington, DC.
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The group is expected to disembark the plane together.
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The 7-square-mile island of Grand Turk, where cruise ships dock and where a million cruise ship passengers disembark every year, did not sustain any damage to its most important bit of infrastructure: the cruise pier.
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Origin and Etymology of disembark
Middle French desembarquer, from des- dis- + embarquer to embark
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First Known Use: 1582
in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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Definition of disembark for English Language Learners
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: to leave a ship or airplane
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: to remove (something or someone) from a ship or airplane
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Definition of disembark for Students
disembarked;
disembarking
: to leave or remove from a ship or airplane
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