embankment

Converse of object

• stabilize: British Waterways ' began work to stabilize the embankment on 2nd March.
• reinforce: The old railroad lines that had been used to reinforce the steep embankment can still be seen sticking out from the remains.
• construct: Showing a newly constructed earth embankment running through thick forest.
• build: This loop was bypassed by an embankment built in 1849.
• raise: At the edge of my vision was the raised railroad embankment.
• cross: The canal crosses an embankment past an old wharf which served a pumping station.

Adjective modifier

• a27: They were discovered on the A27 road embankment just east of the bridge section where it crosses the Waterworks Road.
• earthen: Almost the whole length of both banks of the Creek was still lined with earthen embankments in the 1770s.
• grassy: The canal looks down on it from a short grassy embankment.
• disused: The Iron Road was installed along a stretch of disused railroad embankment deep in the Forest.
• steep: Beware of the steep embankment on the approach to the bottom landing field.
• southern: At the opposite end, the viaducts are further apart where they hit the southern embankment.

Modifies a noun

• dam: Embankment dams Embankment dams are very low in height compared to their length.
• wall: Here's a picture from Arriva Trains Wales showing the damage to the embankment wall.

Noun used with modifier

• railroad: Walking along the bottom path, parallel to the railroad embankment, you will pass several young Douglas Fir in a line.
• motorway: Birds of prey are often to be seen hovering over motorway embankments.
• flood: The old OS map shows the branch heading south east, between flood embankments.
• canal: Steps made in the canal embankment from a canal side garden.
• earth: Earlier dams had just been created by making earth embankments.
• grass: The footpath takes you up a grass embankment, and straight into the bailey of the castle.