embark
I
verb
auspicate, begin, commence, conscendere, engage in an enterprise, enter, enter upon, get under way, go into, inaugurate, initiate, institute, launch, make a beginning, originate, plunge into, rationem inire, set out, start, start out, take on, take the first step, take up, undertake, venture
II
index
launch (initiate), leave (depart)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006