Dictionary Entry
embark
embark is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
- 2transitive verb
To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.
- 3intransitive verb
To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.
- 4intransitive verb
To engage in any affair.
- 5verb
set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
"she embarked upon a new career"
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- 6verb
go on board
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- 7verb
proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers
"We ventured into the world of high-tech and bought a supercomputer"
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