embankment
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mənt noun
1.
a bank, mound, dike, or the like, raised to hold back water, carry a roadway, etc.
2.
the action of embanking.
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| —n | |
| See also levee a man-made ridge of earth or stone that carries a road or railway or confines a waterway | |
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Embankment
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
embankment
1786, from embank "to enclose with a bank" (1576).
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Example sentences
The bus went off the road and plunged down an embankment, coming to rest in a cornfield.
If you zoom in, you can make out the embankment of the road and the break where the culverts run underneath it.
Many earthen embankment dams are reaching the end of their planned design and economic life.
They laid her on the granite pavement of the embankment.
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