embark

IPA: ɛmbˈɑrk

To go aboard a craft or vessel for transportation.
To start, begin.
(transitive) To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
(transitive) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair.
(transitive) To cover or enclose with bark.

Examples of "embark" in Sentences

Tonight we get words such as embark, infused, and endeavor.
Em - is a common prefix, found in words such as embark, embed, embody, emboss, embrace, and embroil.
Malcolm's habit, after the birth of each of his four children, was to embark on distant speaking tours.
The dark trauma that followed Flo's death inspired Zaka embark on a documentary project, a tribute to the life of his friend.
For years, the regulators of the global money supply ignored the advice of their top experts, probably because it would require them to do something unheard of, namely embark on a fundamental change in direction.
The European Central Bank raised interest rates for the first time in nearly three years, but sought to reassure investors that it wouldn't embark on a rapid-fire series of increases that could disrupt fragile economies in parts of the euro bloc.
I still can't work out why there is no tasting on the line at El Bulli, and I am still at a loss to know why its staff embark on such futile enterprises as attempting to make a risotto from sunflower seeds they devoted two weeks to this failed experiment.