embark
/ɪmˈbɑɹk/ verb C1- To go aboard a craft or vessel for transportation. · All passengers please embark now.
- To start, begin. · Phil embarked on his journey yesterday.
- 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. · He embarked his fortune in trade.
He/she/it embarks · Past embarked · Past participle embarked · -ing form embarking
Verb forms
- Base form
- embark
- He/she/it
- embarks
- Past
- embarked
- Past participle
- embarked
- -ing form
- embarking
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Edmond preserved the most admirable self-command, not suffering the faintest indication of a smile to escape him at the enumeration of all the benefits he would have reaped had he been able to quit the island; but as La Jeune Amélie had merely come to Monte Cristo to fetch him away, he embarked that same evening, and proceeded with the captain to Leghorn.
“No, for I am only embarked in certainties,” replied Danglars, with the air of a mountebank sounding his own praises; “to involve me, three governments must crumble to dust.”
“Because,” said Andrea, with a certain ill-concealed uneasiness, “I thought I heard my father-in-law say that he intended embarking our property in that famous railway affair of which you spoke just now.”
Nurse helps me in when I embark
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