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embank

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em·bank  (m-bngk)
tr.v. em·banked, em·bank·ing, em·banks
To confine, support, or protect with an embankment.
embank [ɪmˈbæŋk]
vb
(Engineering / Civil Engineering) (tr) to protect, enclose, or confine (a waterway, road, etc.) with an embankment
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Verb1.embank - enclose with banks, as for support or protection; "The river was embanked with a dyke"
hold in, enclose, confine - close in; darkness enclosed him"
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embank
vt river → eindämmen, eindeichen
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He rushed across the plain like a winter torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of fruitful vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven, but in a moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a field waste that many a strong man's hand has reclaimed--even so were the dense phalanxes of the Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus, and many though they were, they dared not abide his onslaught.
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