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 protection

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBANK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they embank    ... he / she / it embanks   
Past simple: embanked   
Past participle: embanked   
-ing form: embanking   

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)