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Definition of Embark
Embark
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; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.

To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.

To engage in any affair.


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Embark Quotations
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.
Paul Begala

We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support.
Hjalmar Branting

A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.
Dave Davies

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.
Bobby Hull

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.
Max Baucus


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Embark Translations
embark in Dutch is aan boord gaan, scheep gaan
embark in German is einschiffen
embark in Italian is imbarcare
embark in Spanish is embarcadar, embarcar, embarcarse






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