verbWord forms: debuses, debusing, debused, debusses, debussing or debussed
to unload (goods) or (esp of troops) to alight from a motor vehicle
debus in American English
(diˈbʌs)
transitive verb or intransitive verbWord forms: -bused or -bussed, -busing or -bussing
to get out of a bus; alight from a bus
Word origin
[1910–15; de- + bus]This word is first recorded in the period 1910–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blackout, grass roots, homeroom, payoff, spotlightde- is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), or intensity (decompound)