embankment
/ɪmˈbaŋkm(ə)nt
/ /ɛmˈbaŋkm(ə)nt/noun
1A wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area: [in place names]: Chelsea Embankment...
- There are 140,000 addresses in Hull relying on walls and embankments to prevent flooding every day of the year.
- Flood walls and embankments protect large areas of lower Bootham, Clifton Green and Leeman Road, as well as North Street on the opposite bank of the river from the Guildhall.
- It said the flood walls and embankments being proposed would vary in height between one and 1.8 metres and protect most of the village, including the A166, against a one in 100-year flooding event.
1.1A bank of earth or stone built to carry a road or railway over an area of low ground: a railway embankment...
- Once the vehicle's momentum had carried it towards the embankment alongside the railway tracks there would have been no way it could have been halted in time.
- This species tends to colonise waste ground and railway embankments.
- The footpath is to allow disabled access from the bottom of Crofters Lea down the old railway embankment to Milner's Road.
Synonyms
bank, mound, ridge, earthwork, causeway, barrier, levee, dam, dyke;
slope, verge
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- turn
- turn a blind eye
- turn about
- turnabout
- turn a deaf ear
- turn against (or turn someone against)
- turn (also roll over or turn over) in one's grave
- turn and turn about