EMBARK

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.

2.
v.

To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade. It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation. South.

3.
v.

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

4.
v.

To engage in any affair. Slow to embark in such an undertaking. Macaulay.

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