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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debark.

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Examples

  • A messenger debarks to ask Captain Midnight for help.

    Archive 2009-12-06 Bill Crider 2009

  • The story of Italian military intervention in Iraq begins when the resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Michael Ledeen, sponsored by Defense Minister Antonio Martino, debarks in Rome with Pentagon men in tow to meet a handful of “Iranian exiles.”

    Archive 2005-10-30 Steve Sailer 2005

  • The story of Italian military intervention in Iraq begins when the resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Michael Ledeen, sponsored by Defense Minister Antonio Martino, debarks in Rome with Pentagon men in tow to meet a handful of “Iranian exiles.”

    The Italian Connection Steve Sailer 2005

  • When a passanger debarks, she swipes her room-key as she steps off the gangplank.

    Boing Boing: November 18, 2001 - November 24, 2001 Archives 2001

  • Harry Humphreys and Sam Hussey turn up on some Saturdays, while Joey Long debarks the logs.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Harry Humphreys and Sam Hussey turn up on some Saturdays, while Joey Long debarks the logs.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Slothrop puts his tux back on, wrinkled and shrunken and almost dry, and debarks with Otto to find Der Springer.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Rejecting the obviously allegorical phantasy of "procreation," we may reasonably suppose ourselves to be here in the presence of an emigration from the South Seas or from southern China, which debarks on the coast of Awaji and thence crosses to Shikoku.

    A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

  • The irate and insulted Corkey debarks with Lockwin.

    David Lockwin—The People's Idol John McGovern 1883

  • Night drops her mantle, and silently the unsuspected squadron floats down the stealthy waters, and debarks its fateful freight.

    Gala-days Gail Hamilton 1864

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