embank

American  

[em-bangk] / ɛmˈbæŋk /

verb (used with object)

1. to enclose or protect with an embankment.

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embank British  

/ ɪmˈbæŋk /

verb

1. (tr) to protect, enclose, or confine (a waterway, road, etc) with an embankment

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Other Word Forms

• unembanked
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of embank

First recorded in 1640–50; em- ¹ + bank ¹

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Example Sentences

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embank

Sir,—What are the authorities about that they do not at once embank the river on both sides up to Richmond, and span it with five bridges between this and Gravesend?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 by Various

If you were to embank Lincolnshire now,—more stoutly against the sea? or strip the peat of Solway, or plant Plinlimmon moors with larch—then, in due hour of year, some amateur reaping and threshing?

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

I trust that if urban improvers ever want to embank the "Mall" or the eyot, public opinion will see its way to keeping this unique bit of the London river as it is.

From The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish

To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

"Is he empowered to pull down churches that he may use the stones to embank his drains?"

From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton

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