Adjective modifier

• natural: The river meanders for 45km through the lowlands forming ox-bow lakes, backwater swamps and natural levees which are used for small agricultural plots.

Converse of object

• build: Thus, when the Americans built the levees, they exchanged a large risk of small floods for a small risk of large floods.

• break: With its main levee broken, the evacuated city of New Orleans has become part of the Gulf of Mexico.

• raise: Whenever a river floods, it has a tendency to raise a levee beside its banks.

• hold: A few days later he held a levee when every officer in the force was presented to him.

• breach: Damage from Hurricane Katrina is complicated by widespread flooding from breached levees.

Converse of subject

• surround: It is surrounded by levees and protected by powerful pumps.

Modifies a noun

• system: The levee system that protects the city crumbled, flooding the city with millions of tons of water.

• breach: We now know Bush lied about his knowledge of the New Orleans levee breach.

• construction: Ongoing work aims to understand the precise stratigraphic link between phases of channel erosion and sediment bypass and levee construction.

Noun used with modifier

• riverside: A riverside levee daughter mingled with on the fourth.

• river: He recently took his bulldozer to the river levee and now there is a creek between us.