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embark |
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embark Verb 1. to go on board a ship or aircraft 2. embark on to begin (a new project or venture) [Old Provençal embarcar] embarkation n
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embark verb go aboard, climb aboard, board ship, step aboard, go on board, take ship << OPPOSITE get off Translationsvt → embarcar; (fig) → emprender vi to embark (on) → sich einschiffen (auf); to embark on (journey) → beginnen; (course of action) → einschlagen to embark on (fig) → imbarcarsi in [+ journey]; intraprendere |
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| As most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford, thence to embark on their voyage, it may as well be related that I, for one, had no idea of so doing. Tell me how you came to embark upon such a course of conduct. These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life. |
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