different between disbar vs disbark

English

Etymology

dis- +? bar

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?b??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

disbar (third-person singular simple present disbars, present participle disbarring, simple past and past participle disbarred)

1. (law, transitive) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his or her status and privileges as such.
2. (transitive) To exclude (a person) from something.
   • 1896, Two More Disbarred: Bloomingston and Lowney Out of College Athletics; Action Taken by Board of Control Last Night, Detroit Free Press, page 6

     The friends of Holmes have been criticising the action of the board in disbarring him on the ground that it was too severe […]

Derived terms

• disbarment

Translations

Anagrams

• Bairds, bidars, braids, rabids

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?b??(?)k/

Etymology 1

dis- +? bark

Verb

disbark (third-person singular simple present disbarks, present participle disbarking, simple past and past participle disbarked)

1. (transitive) To strip of bark.
   • 1665, Robert Boyle, New Experiments and Observations upon Cold

     fir-trees […] disbarked

Synonyms

• bark, excorticate

Etymology 2

Middle French desbarquer, from des- + barque.

Verb

disbark (third-person singular simple present disbarks, present participle disbarking, simple past and past participle disbarked)

1. (obsolete) To disembark.

   • The ship we moor on these obscure abodes;
     Disbark the sheep, an offering to the gods

Anagrams

• Drabiks