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imbark

imbark is the archaic form of embark.

Meaning of embark

Verb (1)

embark (third-person singular simple present embarks, present participle embarking, simple past and past participle embarked)

  1. To go aboard a craft or vessel for transportation.
    • All passengers please embark now.
  2. To start, begin.
    • Phil embarked on his journey yesterday.
  3. (transitive) To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
  4. (transitive) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair.
    • He embarked his fortune in trade.

Verb (2)

embark (third-person singular simple present embarks, present participle embarking, simple past and past participle embarked)

  1. (transitive) To cover or enclose with bark.

Forms of imbark

third-person singular presentimbarks
present participleimbarking
past participleimbarked
pastimbarked

Words formed from imbark

Questions about imbark

What is imbark the archaic form of?
Imbark is the archaic form of embark.

Words near imbark in the dictionary

  1. imbargo
  2. imbargoed
  3. imbargoes
  4. imbargoing
  5. imbargos
  6. imbark
  7. imbarkation
  8. imbarkations
  9. imbarked
  10. imbarketh
  11. imbarking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imbark (page history and authors); embark (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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