disembark

verb
🔊/ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑːk/
🔊/ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑːrk/
(North American English also debark)
[intransitive, transitive] (formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they disembark
🔊/ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑːk/
🔊/ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑːrk/
he / she / it disembarks
🔊/ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑːks/
🔊/ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑːrks/
past simple disembarked
🔊/ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑːkt/
🔊/ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑːrkt/
past participle disembarked
🔊/ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑːkt/
🔊/ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑːrkt/
-ing form disembarking
🔊/ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑːkɪŋ/
🔊/ˌdɪsɪmˈbɑːrkɪŋ/
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  1. to leave a vehicle, especially a ship or an aircraft, at the end of a journey; to let or make people leave a vehicle下(车、船、飞机等)
    • We will be disembarking at midday.我们将在正午时下船。
    • disembark from something They had just disembarked from their tour bus after a 12-hour journey.他们刚刚结束了12小时的行程,从游览车上下来。
    • disembark something The heat hit us as soon as we disembarked the plane.我们下飞机后,热气立即袭来。
    • disembark somebody The passengers were disembarked safely.乘客安全下车。
    opposite embarkTopics Transport by waterc2, Transport by airc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryDisembark is used with these nouns as the subject:
    • passenger
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    Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French désembarquer, Spanish desembarcar, or Italian disimbarcare, based on Latin barca ‘ship's boat’.