embark
IPA: ɛmbˈɑrk
verb
- To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane.
- 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.
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Examples of "embark" in Sentences
- The ship was embarked by the dock.
- The city was the primary port of embarkation.
- Embarkation of the army and the Declaration of The Hague.
- This forced the party to embark in the famous long march.
- Daniel Cummings was the next to embark in the mercantile trade.
- A lift was fitted which allowed embarkation within the building.
- The British achieved their strategic aim of retreat and embarkation.
- The Doctor and Barbara watch the Incursion Squad embark and dematerialise.
- It was impossible to stop on the gravelled toboggan on which we'd embarked.
- In the 1990s the brothers embarked upon a period of musical experimentation.
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