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单词 embank
释义
embank
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v

WORD FAMILY
embank: embanked, embanking, embankment+/embankment: embankments
USAGE EXAMPLES
The scheme also involved the huge challenge of embanking the Thames, creating the Victoria, Albert and Chelsea embankments.
The Guardian(Apr 04, 2016)
To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary—(2n...(2012)
A roadway lined by trees, like a boulevard, runs between the houses and the river, which is embanked, like the Thames in London.
Frith, Henry, In the Yellow Sea(2011)
v enclose with banks, as for support or protection
The river was embanked with a dyke
Hyper
confine, enclose, hold in
close in; darkness enclosed him"
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