embank
/ɪmˈbaŋk
/ /ɛmˈbaŋk/verb [with object]
1Construct a wall or bank of earth or stone in order to contain the course or flow of (a river): the government planned to dredge and embank stretches of the delta’s main river...
- Trench's solution to the now-threatening nature of the Thames was to embank the river, allowing the water to cover the mudbanks and to scour away the semi-liquid ‘sluggish Filth’ from the sewers.
- The river is straight and embanked, and most areas are shallow enough for Little Egrets to forage.
- This is another small river, embanked for all of its length, with a depth of up to 5 feet.
1.1Construct a bank of earth or stone to carry (a road or railway) over low ground: (as adjective embanked) the embanked railway line...
- Beyond these stones was an embanked avenue leading across the landscape to the northeast.
Rhymes
- in a minor key
- in a moment
- inamorata
- inamorato
- in-and-out
- in and out of
- inane
- inanely
- inaneness
- inanga
- in an ideal (or a perfect) world
- inanimate
- inanimately
- inanimation
- in an interesting condition
- inanition
- inanity
- in a nutshell
- in any case
- in any event
- in any shape or form (or in any way, shape, or form)
- in a (or one) sense
- in a pig's eye
- in-app
- inapparent