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embank Definition

em·bank (em baŋk′, im-)

transitive verb

to protect, support, or enclose with a bank or banks of earth, rubble, etc.

embank Usage Examples

Object

  • circle: There are now only 33 stones left and it is classed as a flattened and embanked stone circle.
  • path: Take the left fork up a small bank and keep to the embanked path, passing pylons and old allotments on your right.
  • road: The traditional settlement pattern is dispersed, with most buildings set back from the embanked roads.
  • enclosure: It is an unusually animated scene, which the tree and embanked enclosure indicate as taking place in a rural setting.
  • section: The new Graham Palmer Lock, built to overcome the subsidence of the embanked section beyond.

Preposition: on

side: There is some slight internal embanking on the south side, and overall there is little to suggest a raised churchyard.

Modifying Another Word

  • extensively: It has been extensively embanked, and many of its London tributaries now flow underground.
  • internally: This is internally embanked on the east and southeast and has been subsequently terraced.