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EMBANK

• 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.

• EMBANK (verb)

Sense 1

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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 or confine)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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(Arabic proverb)
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(Corsican proverb)

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