Other forms: disembarked, disembarking, disembarks
To disembark is to get off a ship or an aircraft. Disembark at Dover, passengers disembarking, disembark the vehicles.
It is the formal word used in announcements and shipping documents, where get off would do everywhere else. It works both ways — you can disembark passengers as well as disembark yourself. Note embark beneath it, from the word for a boat.
1verbdisembarkTo get off a ship or an aircraft.
“Passengers may disembark once the plane has come to a complete stop.”
disembark is a getting off.
Middle French
embarquer
English
embark
English, today
disembark
Built from
From dis- + embark. embark Borrowed from Middle French embarquer, from en- + barque (“small ship”). Compare with Portuguese embarcar, Spanish abarcar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA