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Embarked vs Embarged - What's the difference?

embarked | embarged |

As verbs the difference between embarked and embarged

is that embarked is past tense of embark while embarged is past tense of embarge.

embarked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (embark)
  • Anagrams

    *

    embark

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane.
  • :
  • *
  • *:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked , which is disquieting and fussy.
  • To start, begin.
  • :
  • (label) To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
  • (label) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair.
  • :
  • *(Robert South) (1634–1716)
  • *:It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation.
  • Antonyms

    * disembark

    Derived terms

    * disembarcation * disembarkee

    embarged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (embarge)

  • embarge

    English

    Verb

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

    Synonyms

    * impose

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) An embargo.
  • * 1979 , Westel Woodbury Willoughby, Japan's Case Examined , page 174
  • This embarge is termed a moral one because it imposes no legal restraints upon would-be exporters, for there are no statutes providing for this.

    References

    * "[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/embarge]" in the Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1 , Lexico Publishing Group, 1996.