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Embank

verb
(past & past part. embanked; pres. part. embanking)
1.
Enclose with banks, as for support or protection.



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"Embank" Quotes from Famous Books



... proposed to embank the famous old Tiber; and already the squalid quarter of the Ghetto has been invaded by the workmen, who are levelling the wretched dwellings that have for so many ages rendered its name a byword throughout the world, preparatory to the erection of new buildings. So greatly has Rome ...
— Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo • W. Cope Devereux



Words linked to "Embank" :   confine, enclose, hold in



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