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EMBANK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does embank mean? 

EMBANK (verb)
  The verb EMBANK has 1 sense:

1. enclose with banks, as for support or protectionplay

  Familiarity information: EMBANK used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EMBANK (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they embank  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it embanks  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: embanked  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: embanked  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: embanking  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose with banks, as for support or protection

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

The river was embanked with a dyke

Hypernyms (to "embank" is one way to...):

confine; enclose; hold in (close in)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

embankment (a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection)


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