embanked
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Protected by or containing embankments.
verb
simple past and past participle of embank
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Inflected Forms
more embanked (comparative)
most embanked (superlative)