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English
Adjective
embanked (comparative more embanked, superlative most embanked)
- Protected by or containing embankments.
1827, François Jean marquis de Chastellux, Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780-81-82, page 116:As it approaches its conflux, this creek becomes more and more embanked, and difficult to ford: the heights are equal on the two banks; but for this reason the advantage was in favour of him who defended the passage.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 374, about Tealby:Most of the older buildings are of reddish-brown ironstone with mossy-tiled roofs, and almost all have stone-embanked gardens, richly planted and expertly maintained.
2010, Tony Spagnoly, Ted Smith, Salient Points Five: Ypres & Picardy, 1914–18:North of the wood from the Hospice Redoubt stood Red Château where today stands a cottage, its position edging what was then a sunken road, the remains of its original course still visible alongside the more embanked road of today.
2012, Judith Ehlert, Beautiful Floods, page 33:The open floodplains in the Long Xuyen Quadrangle became more and more embanked, and therefore the conditions for flood-adapted, traditional floating rice increasingly declined.
Derived terms
Verb
embanked
- simple past and past participle of embank