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verb
- 1. go on board a ship or aircraft: "he embarked for India in 1817" Similar Opposite
- 2. begin (a course of action): "she embarked on a new career" Similar
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to go on to a ship or an aircraft: We embarked at Miami for our Caribbean cruise.
The meaning of EMBARK is to go on board a vehicle for transportation. How to use embark in a sentence.
Embark definition: to board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle, as for a journey.. See examples of EMBARK used in a sentence.
When you embark on something, you are starting it — and it's exciting. You might embark on a new career or embark on a trip to the Galapagos Islands. You wouldn't embark on a trip to the grocery store. The verb embark can be used specifically to refer to boarding a ship for a journey.
The flight crew embarked and the plane took off. [ T ] to put goods or passengers onto a ship, aircraft, or train: The ship had an electrical hoist which allowed cars to be embarked and disembarked in all tidal conditions.
Definition of embark verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
v. em·barked, em·bark·ing, em·barks. v.tr. 1. To cause to board a vessel or aircraft: stopped to embark passengers. 2. To enlist (a person or persons) or invest (capital) in an enterprise. v.intr. 1. To go aboard a vessel or aircraft, as at the start of a journey.
If you embark on something new, difficult, or exciting, you start doing it. He's embarking on a new career as a writer. American English : embark / ɪmˈbɑrk /
EMBARK definition: to get on a ship, boat, or aircraft to begin a journey. Learn more.
Definitions of 'embark' 1. If you embark on something new, difficult, or exciting, you start doing it. [...] 2. When someone embarks on a ship, they go on board before the start of a journey. [...] More. Conjugations of 'embark' present simple: I embark, you embark [...] past simple: I embarked, you embarked [...] past participle: embarked. More.
