embank Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb enclose with banks, as for support or protection
    • The river was embanked with a dyke

WordNet

Em*bank" transitive verb
Etymology
Pref. em- + bank. Cf. Imbank.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Embanked ; present participle & verbal noun Embanking
Definitions
  1. To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.

Webster 1913