Definitions for embark

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embark em·bark

Spelling: [em-bahrk]

IPA: /ɛmˈbɑrk/

Embark is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in embark (abekmr).

Definitions for embark

verb (used with object)

1. to put or receive on board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle.
2. to involve (someone) in an enterprise.
3. to venture or invest (something) in an enterprise.

verb (used without object)

1. to board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle, as for a journey.
2. to start an enterprise, business, etc.

Origin of embark

1540-50; Middle French embarquer Spanish embarcar, equivalent to em- em-¹ + -barcar, verbal derivative of barca Examples for embark

M. Gardoqui will embark the last of this or first of next month.

When I embark upon a film, I design a set of rules and create the film according to these rules.

You are at liberty to embark in them with your men before we scuttle this ship.

embark, and the romance quits our vessel and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

Now that the Confucian-inspired mourning period is over, the son is free to embark on his own programs and policies.

Somewhere about the 20th the soldiers began to embark, to the number of 1700 men.

Churchill then decided to embark on a British cruiser, the Belfast, and watch the landings from offshore.

From thence I shall proceed to Yarmouth, and embark immediately.

In the words of Shondo, a professional cage fighter turned Paladin, “It was my fate to embark on this journey.”

You may well be about to embark on four days of cosseting, eating, drinking, and sleeping.