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Definition: EMBANKED

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Being repressed.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb 1. Of Embank.[Websters].
Verb Past Tense 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb embank.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(embank)
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]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Embanked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1386. (references)

Definition: EMBANKED

Part of SpeechDefinition
Adjective1. Being repressed.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb1. Of Embank.[Websters].
Verb Past Tense1. Past tense conjugation of the verb embank.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(embank)
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]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "EMBANKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1386. (references)