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EMBANK
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they embank ... he / she / it embanks
Past simple: embanked
Past participle: embanked
-ing form: embanking
Sense 1
Meaning:
Enclose with banks, as for support or protection
Example:
The river was embanked with a dyke
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "embank" is one way to...):
confine; enclose; hold in (close in)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
embankment (a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection)
