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n. The act of embanking.

n. A mound of earth or stone built to hold back water or to support a roadway.

n. a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road

n. The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

n. A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.

n. The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

n. A mound, bank, dike, or earthwork raised for any purpose, as to protect land from the inroads of the sea or from the overflow of a river, to carry a canal, road, or railway over a valley, etc.; a levee: as, the Thames embankment in London, England.

n. a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection

"+ '' the embankment is straight, deep as well as wide ''"

hill    mound   

Victoria Embankment    embank   

levee    rampart    wall    bulwark   

embanking   

rampart    escarpment    hillock    riverbank    causeway    berm    knoll    ditch    hummock    parapet