| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Enclose with banks, as for support or protection; "The river was embanked with a dyke".[Wordnet]
2. To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.[Websters] 3. Base verb from the following inflections: embanking, embanked, embanks, embanker, embankers, embankingly and embankedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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"EMBANK" is a common misspelling or typo for: embanks. |
Date "EMBANK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Note: Embank \Em*bank"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Embanked; present participle verb or noun Embanking.]. (references) |
