embank
Use Embank in a sentence
verb (used with object)
to enclose or protect with an embankment.
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| —vb | |
| (tr) to protect, enclose, or confine (a waterway, road, etc) with an embankment | |
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Embank
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is subtilize. Does it mean:
| to bark; yelp. |
| to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about. |
Example sentences
The place where the accident oc curred is the base of a steep incline alongside of which runs a high embank ment.
Poplar street was never opened and never could be opened owing- to this embank ment.
The water gradually ate into the embank ment until there was nothing left but a frail bulwark: of wood.
Excavate and embank road, road intersections and road entrances to a smooth and uniform surface.
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