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/ɛmbˈɑrk/ /ɪmbˈɑrk/ Listen

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

... out his four ships to be destroyed by the American navy waiting outside! Never in the world's history was a more magnificent piece of heroism displayed than in the obedience to discipline which caused Admiral Cervera to re-embark his marines and lead them forth to certain death, well knowing what they were to face, for he hid nothing from them. He called on them as sons of Spain, and they answered heroically, as Spaniards have ever done ...

— Spanish Life in Town and Country • L. Higgin and Eugene E. Street

... embark, was one who had just parted from his wife and children; care and anxiety had set their marks on him. He was a man of domestic habits, and was now, perhaps, to be severed for years, from all that gave any charm to life; but the fiat for separation had gone forth, and was inevitable! ...

— A Book For The Young • Sarah French

... conventional meaning, I hope," laughed Dalton. "Your way of putting it suggests a duel—which no Englishman of any sense would embark ...

— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... somewhat younger critic the perspective may be different. By the accident of years it would appear to him that Mr Hardy's poetry was no less a corpus than his prose. They would be extended equally and at the same moment before his eyes; he would embark upon voyages of discovery into both at roughly the same time; and he might find, in total innocence of preciousness and paradox, that the poetry would yield up to him a quality of perfume not less essential than any that he could ...

— Aspects of Literature • J. Middleton Murry

... signed by himself according to the usual form, but written throughout with his own hand. He informed them that the necessary preparations had been made for sending away the guards who came with him to England, and that they would immediately embark, unless the House should, out of consideration for him, be disposed to retain them, which he should take very kindly. When the message had been read, a member proposed that a day might be fixed for the consideration ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 5 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

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