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Difference Between Disembark and Deboard

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Disembark

To exit from a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.

Deboard

To get off (a train, aeroplane, etc.); to disembark from.

Disembark

To remove from a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.

Deboard

To get off a train, aeroplane, etc.; to disembark.

Disembark

(transitive) To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore
The general disembarked the troops.
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Deboard

To remove from a train, aeroplane, etc.; to allow (passengers) to disembark.

Disembark

(intransitive) To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a train or aircraft.

Deboard

To exit a form of transportation such as a boat, ship, airplane, trolley, streetcar or spaceship.
President Ford fell as he deboarded Air Force One.
He was detained late Tuesday after deboarding a British Airways flight from London.

Disembark

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.

Disembark

To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark.
And, making fast their moorings, disembarked.
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Disembark

Go ashore;
The passengers disembarked at Southampton

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