disembark

disembark

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ embark

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbɑːk/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)k

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

   • 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello

     Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers.

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

   Synonym: debark

Antonyms

• embark

Derived terms

• disembarkation

Translations

remove from on board a vessel

Bulgarian: дебаркирам (bg) (debarkiram) Catalan: desembarcar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 登陸 (zh), 登陆 (zh) (dēnglù), 下船 (zh) (xiàchuán) Czech: vylodit Esperanto: elŝipiĝi Finnish: rantauttaa French: débarquer (fr) Galician: desembarcar (gl) German: ausschiffen (de)

Greek: Ancient: ἀποβιβάζω (apobibázō), ἐκβιβάζω (ekbibázō) Italian: sbarcare (it) Latin: egredior Norman: dêbèrtchi, d'sembèrtchi Portuguese: desembarcar (pt) Romanian: descărca (ro) Russian: выса́живать (ru) impf (vysáživatʹ), вы́садить (ru) pf (výsaditʹ) Spanish: desembarcar (es) Turkish: karaya çıkmak

to go ashore, to leave a train or airplane

Bulgarian: дебаркирам (bg) (debarkiram) Catalan: desembarcar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 登陸 (zh), 登陆 (zh) (dēnglù), 下船 (zh) (xiàchuán) Czech: vystoupit (cs) Dutch: van boord gaan, ontschepen (nl) Esperanto: elvagoniĝi, elaviiĝi Finnish: astua maihin, nousta maihin, nousta junasta, laskeutua lentokoneesta, nousta linja-autosta French: débarquer (fr) Galician: desembarcar (gl) Greek: Ancient: ἀποβαίνω (apobaínō), ἐκβαίνω (ekbaínō)

Italian: sbarcare (it) Japanese: 降りる (ja) (おりる, oriru), 上陸する (ja) (じょうりくする, jōriku suru) Maori: heke, makere Norman: dêbèrtchi, d'sembèrtchi Polish: wysiadać (pl) impf, wysiąść (pl) pf Portuguese: desembarcar (pt) Russian: выса́живаться (ru) impf (vysáživatʹsja), вы́садиться (ru) pf (výsaditʹsja), сходи́ть (ru) impf (sxodítʹ), сойти́ (ru) pf (sojtí) Spanish: desembarcar (es) Vietnamese: xuống xe

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for disembark in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)