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to leveed

7.2

To build a raised bank around land to stop flood water

verb
/ˈlɛviːd/

: diqueado

Many low-lying areas have been leveed to protect homes from seasonal floods.

Examples

The engineers leveed the entire stretch of the riverbank last year.
The town was leveed to prevent flood damage.
After the heavy rains, the town quickly leveed the river to prevent flooding.
Many homes along the river were leveed last year.
After the heavy rains, the engineers leveed the riverbank to protect the town from flooding.
The government leveed several areas near the coast to shield them from storm surges.
To safeguard the farmland from rising waters, they leveed the surrounding fields last summer.

How Protected

waterproofed

3.3

to leveed

7.2

protected

1 2.0

vulnerable

581 4.0

Surface Forms

leveed infinitive

leveed past

leveed past participle

leveeing present participle

leveeds third person singular

Morphology

leveed = levee (transparent) = levee + ed

The verb form is a regular past/past-participle formation from the base 'levee' (understood as the structure that provides protection), so the composition is transparent.

Etymology

Leveed as a verb means to build or surround with a raised bank to protect from floods. It comes from levee, a word that means 'a raised bank' and from a word meaning 'to raise', like lift, so to leveed is to 'raise' earth to keep flood water back.