Usually means: Creating raised barrier along water.
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  1. embanking: Merriam-Webster
  2. embanking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. embanking: Vocabulary.com
  4. embanking: Wordnik
  5. embanking: Wiktionary
  6. Embanking, embanking: Dictionary.com
  7. Embanking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Embanking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. embanking: FreeDictionary.org
  10. embanking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (embank)

▸ verb:  to put up a bank so as to confine or to defend
▸ verb:  to protect by a bank of earth or stone
▸ Also see embank


Opposite:
excavating, digging, unearthing

Phrases:
Embanking of the tidal Thames, more...

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Opposite:
excavating, digging, unearthing

Phrases:
Embanking of the tidal Thames, more...




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