embankment
22
5.9
- noun
- /ɪmˈbæŋkmənt/
:
terraplén
- Meanwhile, Starling is leading construction on the embankment that is on the far side of the river.
- an earthen embankment
- riverside embankments
- a steep embankment
It's on like this muddy, like climb up, up like a steep embankment with thorns.
- It's on like this muddy, like climb up, up like a steep embankment with thorns.
- It had skidded off and hit an embankment and actually flipped over and fallen from an overpass.
- And we got like, maybe, I don't know, five guys in between me and Cop, and his leg is up on the embankment and he's shooting with his.
- But we were fishing and some kids were up on the like on this railroad track, like up up this, up this embankment from this river.
- And but then he years later, he was doing pills and drove into, I'll give you a second to guess an embankment.
- This river dried up now the flat deck of the river stretched away to the north at its margins, where the remains of the stone embankment formed a ragged windbreak.
- If you walk on the Thames Embankment, do you realise that it's one of Basilgate's last final attempts to capture sewage before it reaches the river?
- Wave slapped the embankment and we slapped the concrete buoy monument made it.
- I was living in the hotel there and brought me down to London and talked to me, took me to a place called Tintas, your house on the Embankment.
- I was living in the hotel there and brought me down to London and talked to me, took me to a place called Tintajo House on the Embankment.
- And as I get into by cover from the embankment portion, I'm like this high in water, chest high, neck high at this point.
Examples
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With a loud shriek, she tumbled over the root-studded embankment and into a grassy glen.
Fiction book (1992) -
Down a small embankment, you'll find a wall with a gate.
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We see him clearly in a long shot from an embankment behind the house.
Fiction book (1991) -
What about the man they found last Friday night, near the embankment?
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It's something just to climb up an embankment and sit in the front seat of your car.
Fiction book (1994) -
Do you know the little harbor down by the embankment?
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The thick smoke cloud hung above them, so Andrew scrambled up the embankment for a better view.
Fiction book (1990) -
In these cases, riverside embankments actually increase flooding by blocking flow into the rivers.
Academic text (1997) -
A ball of twine flips out of the basket and unravels down the embankment toward the river.
Fiction book (1996) -
The workers reinforced the embankment to prevent flooding along the river.
Synonyms
160
3.0
A raised slope of earth beside water or a road
60
7.2
A raised bank along a river that stops flood water from reaching land
19
4.6
A raised wall built to stop water from flooding land
14
3.9
A strong wall built along the shore to protect land from the sea
12
8.8
A wide wall of earth or stone that protects a castle
5
4.4
A wall built to hold back soil or water on one side
3
6.0
A large bank of earth built by people to defend land or control water
1
4.4
A high wall that stops flood water from entering an area
1
8.2
A raised bank that stops water from flooding land
A raised bank of earth built to support a road or defend a place
A steep slope in front of a fort made by people that protects it from attack
Compounds
- Specialized
A steep slope in front of a fort made by people that protects it from attack
How Protective
- Specialized
14
3.9
- Specialized
5
6.4
- US
60
7.2
22
5.9
160
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Embankment comes from the prefix em- (meaning 'in' or 'into') plus bank, which means a 'mound' or 'river edge'. Imagine piling up earth to make a raised bank that holds back water or carries a road — that's why an embankment is a long, raised area of earth or stone.