Meaning & use
debark
To get off a ship or aircraft after a voyage or flight; to disembark.
See it in a sentence
Passengers began to debark as soon as the cruise ship docked at the busy port.
Soldiers debarked from the transport plane and lined up quickly on the tarmac.
A note on using this word
Debark is a less common variant of disembark, used mainly in formal or military contexts in American English.
Words with a similar meaning
disembarkalight
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Words with an opposite meaning
Another way to use it
2. verb
To strip the bark from a tree, typically as a step in processing timber.
The mill workers debark the logs before cutting them into boards.
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