disembark
VerbUS[dih-sem-bahrk]/dɪsɛmˈbɑrk/3 syllables
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Dis′em·bark′ transitive verb [past tense & past participle Disembarked; present participle & verbal noun Disembarking.]
Origin: Pref. dis- + embark: cf. F. désembarquer.
To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.
Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers.— William Shakespeare
Dis′em·bark′ intransitive verb
To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark.
And, making fast their moorings, disembarked.— William Cowper
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54