different between imbark vs embark

English

Verb

imbark (third-person singular simple present imbarks, present participle imbarking, simple past and past participle imbarked)

1. Archaic form of embark.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French embarquer, from em- + barque (“small ship”). Compare with Portuguese embarcar, Spanish abarcar.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?b??k/, /?m?b??k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?b??k/, /?m?b??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k
• Hyphenation: em?bark

Verb

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

1. To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane.
2. To start, begin.

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.

   • It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation.

   • 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter

     Nor seek to get his patron's favour, by embarking himself in the factions of the family; to enquire after domestic simulties, their sports or affections.

Synonyms

• (on a boat or ship): make sail

Antonyms

• disembark

Derived terms

• embarkation
• disembarkation
• disembarkee

Translations

Anagrams

• bemark