Definition of "embarked" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of embark. (verb)

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• "After Fermat, Germain embarked on an eventful career as a physicist, a discipline in which she would again excel only to be confronted by the prejudices of the establishment."
• "Instead of attempting to heal wounds caused by the election, Ahmadinejad during the first year of his second term embarked on an ambitious and rambunctious foreign and domestic policy agenda, which further alienated the middle class and angered rival conservative factions long suspicious of him and his entourage."
• "Last fall, McCain embarked on a public-relations tour aimed at boosting Gen. Petraeus 'policy as well as his own campaign."