as in landed
to go ashore from a ship
the seasick passengers debarked as soon as the ship dropped anchor
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Recent Examples of debarked
Foresters debarked and chipped the highly infested tree to kill the beetles inside.
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Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2026
Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for debarked
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The Vikings dominated the paint to start the second quarter, scoring off of three consecutive layups before Sophia Sarkar landed two 3-pointers.—
Tony Gleason,
Daily News,
22 Feb. 2026
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Barrios occasionally landed a right, but nothing seemed to slow down Garcia, who relied heavily on his right hand.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Feb. 2026
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Victor Rillet, a 21-year-old Frenchman, disembarked the steamship Washington in New York in October 1864, carrying the kind of optimism that fuels both great innovation and spectacular disappointment.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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That was where miners disembarked for the northern mines in the Sierra Nevada mountains.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Debarked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debarked. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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