disembark
verb(North American English also debark)
[intransitive, transitive] (formal)Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they disembark | |
he / she / it disembarks | |
past simple disembarked | |
past participle disembarked | |
-ing form disembarking |
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. 我们一下飞机,热浪就袭击了我们。 - disembark somebody
The passengers were disembarked safely. 乘客安全下船。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDisembark is used with these nouns as the subject:- passenger
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French désembarquer, Spanish desembarcar, or Italian disimbarcare, based on Latin barca ‘ship's boat’.