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embarging

embarging is the present participle and gerund of embarge.

Meaning of embarge

Verb

embarge (third-person singular simple present embarges, present participle embarging, simple past and past participle embarged)

  1. (transitive) To put in a barge.
  2. (intransitive) To board a barge; to embark.
    • [...] where the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and their attendants take barge; also the Grocers Company do likewise embarge, [...].1843, Frederick William Fairholt, Lord Mayors' Pageants, page 152

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Questions about embarging

What is embarging the present participle and gerund of?
Embarging is the present participle and gerund of embarge.

Words near embarging in the dictionary

  1. embarcation
  2. embarcations
  3. embarge
  4. embarged
  5. embarges
  6. embarging
  7. embargo
  8. embargoed
  9. embargoes
  10. embargoing
  11. embargoist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: embarging (page history and authors); embarge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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