Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of embanking.
- noun A mound of earth or stone built to hold back water or to support a roadway.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
- noun A mound, bank, dike, or earthwork raised for any purpose, as to protect land from the inroads of the sea or from the overflow of a river, to carry a canal, road, or railway over a valley, etc.; a levee: as, the Thames embankment in London, England.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
- noun A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
long artificial mound ofearth andstone ,built tohold back water , forprotection or tosupport aroad
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection
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Examples
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+ '' the embankment is straight, deep as well as wide ''
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+ '' the embankment is straight, deep as well as wide ''
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While we wait, Gus reverses the van, rocking it back and forth on the edge of an embankment, which is littered with rotting banana peels and tin cans.
The Snatchback 2009
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While we wait, Gus reverses the van, rocking it back and forth on the edge of an embankment, which is littered with rotting banana peels and tin cans.
The Snatchback 2009
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A meandering walking trail and a bike path are possibilities along the 100-foot wide embankment, which is wider than the High Line, said S tephen Gucciardo , president of the Embankment Preservation Coalition, a volunteer group formed to save the historic relic.
High Line Hopes in Jersey City Heather Haddon 2012
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Because you had said that you saw it land intact, but then it hit an embankment, which is pretty much what we're seeing here in this video.
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I thought for many years that the 2-inch Creusot shell which had burst so near us on the embankment was the last projectile I should ever see fired in anger.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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I thought for many years that the 2-inch Creusot shell which had burst so near us on the embankment was the last projectile I should ever see fired in anger.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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I thought for many years that the 2-inch Creusot shell which had burst so near us on the embankment was the last projectile I should ever see fired in anger.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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One side of the embankment was a walled garage and, up the slope, a half-hidden ornate Chinese mansion with a green tiled roof and dragons on its gables.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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