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Embank
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb Embank has 1 sense
- embank(v = verb.stative) Array - enclose with banks, as for support or protection; "The river was embanked with a dyke" is one way to confine, enclose, hold in
Derived form noun embankment1
Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
Embank, v. t. [Pref. em- + bank. Cf. Imbank.].
To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone. [1913 Webster]
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