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embank

Verb (transitive)

em=bank

WORDNET DICTIONARY

embank(v = verb.stative) Array - enclose with banks, as for support or protection; "The river was embanked with a dyke"

Derived form noun embankment₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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]

embank, v.tr. shut in or confine (a river etc.) with an artificial bank.

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