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verb

Embark v. t. (past & past part. embarked; pres. part. embarking)

To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.

To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade. "It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation."

Embark v. i.

To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.

To engage in any affair. "Slow to embark in such an undertaking."

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Etymology of 'Embark'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Embark" Quotes from Famous Books

... which were obviously still an unknown quantity, and the conference ended in my sending him to a firm of real-estate brokers who were looking out for a partner with a little money to invest. Halidon had a few thousands of his own, which he decided to embark in the venture; and thereafter, for the remaining months of the winter, he appeared punctually at a desk in the brokers' office, and sketched plans of the Academy on the back of their business paper. The site ...

— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton

... young Somers met me after it was over. Also I thought it my duty to explain to him with much clearness in the presence of Scroope as a witness, the great dangers of such an enterprise as that on which he proposed to embark. I told him straight out that he must be prepared to find his death in it from starvation, fever, wild beasts or at the hands of savages, while success was quite problematical and very likely ...

— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard

... imagin'd wing our swift scene flies, In motion of no less celerity Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen The well-appointed king at [Hampton] pier Embark his royalty, and his brave fleet With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning. Play with your fancies; and in them behold Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing; Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give ...

— The Life of King Henry V • William Shakespeare [Tudor edition]

... to Canton, intending to embark there on board an English man of war. With what infinite transport did he hear the evening before he was to embark, that a sailor knew the identic lady in question. The prince scalded his mouth with the tea ...

— Hieroglyphic Tales • Horace Walpole

... duty, sir," said Aristabulus, bowing so much the lower, from the consciousness that he had actually deserted his post for some months, to embark in the western speculations that were then so active in the country, "not to say my pleasure. There are many profitable occupations in this country, Sir George, that have been overlooked in the eagerness to ...

— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper

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