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Embar [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To shut, close or fasten with a bar; to make fast.

2. To inclose so as to hinder egress or escape.

3. When fast embarr'd in mighty brazen wall.

4. To stop; to shut from entering; to hinder; to block up.

5. He embarred all further trade.

Embar [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.

2. To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.

Embarcation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Embarkation, which see.

Embarcation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Embarkation.

Embarge [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To put in a barge.

Embargo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In commerce, a restraint on ships, or prohibition of sailing, either out of port, or into port, or both; which prohibition is by public authority, for a limited time. Most generally it is a prohibition of ships to leave a port.

Embargo [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To hinder or prevent ships from sailing out of port, or into port, or both, by some law or edict of sovereign authority, for a limited time. Our ships were for a time embargoed by a law of congress.

2. To stop to hinder from being prosecuted by the departure or entrance of ships. The commerce of the United States has been embargoed.

Embargo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.

Embargo [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.

Embargoed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Stopped; hindered from sailing; hindered by public authority, as ships or commerce.

Embargoed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Embargoes [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Embargoing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Restraining from sailing by public authority; hindering.

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Embark [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To go on board of a ship, boat or vessel; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.

2. To engage in any business; to undertake in; to take a share in. The young man embarked rashly in speculation, and was ruined.

Embark [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To put or cause to enter on board a ship or other vessel or boat. The general embarked his troops and their baggage.

2. To engage a person in any affair. This projector embarked his friends in the design or expedition.

Embark [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.

2. To engage in any affair.

Embark [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.

2. To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.

Embarkation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of putting on board of a ship or other vessel, or the act of going aboard.

2. That which is embarked; as an embarkation of Jesuits.

3. A small vessel, or boat. [Unusual.]

Embarkation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.

2. That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits.

Embarked [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Put on shipboard; engaged in any affair.

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Embarking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Putting on board of a ship or boat; going on shipboard.

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Embarkment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Embarkation.

Embarrass [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To perplex; to render intricate; to entangle. We say, public affairs are embarrassed; the state of our accounts is embarrassed; want of order tends to embarrass business.

2. To perplex, as the mind or intellectual faculties; to confuse. Our ideas are sometimes embarrassed.

3. To perplex, as with debts, or demands, beyond the means of payment; applied to a person or his affairs. In mercantile language, a man or his business is embarrassed, when he cannot meet his pecuniary engagements.

4. To perplex; to confuse; to disconcert; to abash. An abrupt address may embarrass a young lady. A young man may be too much embarrassed to utter a word.

Embarrass [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator.

2. To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed.

3. To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.

4. Embarrassment.

Embarrassed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Perplexed; rendered intricate; confused; confounded.

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Embarrassing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Perplexing; entangling; confusing; confounding; abashing.

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Embarrassment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Perplexity; intricacy; entanglement.

2. Confusion of mind.

3. Perplexity arising from insolvency, or from temporary inability to discharge debts.

4. Confusion; abashment.

Embarrassment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness.

2. Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.

Embarred [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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