as in levee
a bank of earth constructed to control water
the embankment is steep, so be careful walking along the ridge
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Recent Examples of embankment
The bus reportedly steered off the road and rolled down an embankment.
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Escher Walcott, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The woman was loaded into a litter and carried up the steep embankment with a rope system, deputies said.
—Helena Wegner, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Hatt lost control of the vehicle, crossed the roadway and hit an embankment before he was ejected from the truck.
—Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 Aug. 2025
There were 54 people including the driver on the tour bus traveling from Niagara Falls, New York, to New York City when the bus crashed, overturned and rolled onto an embankment off Interstate 90 between Rochester and Buffalo, trapping and ejecting passengers.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2025
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Escher Walcott, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The woman was loaded into a litter and carried up the steep embankment with a rope system, deputies said.
—Helena Wegner, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Hatt lost control of the vehicle, crossed the roadway and hit an embankment before he was ejected from the truck.
—Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 Aug. 2025
There were 54 people including the driver on the tour bus traveling from Niagara Falls, New York, to New York City when the bus crashed, overturned and rolled onto an embankment off Interstate 90 between Rochester and Buffalo, trapping and ejecting passengers.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for embankment
Noun
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As levees erupted, storm waters easily flowed in.—
Suzette Hackney,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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But when the levees failed, thousands of people were trapped inside as supplies dwindled and conditions deteriorated quickly.—
Sarah Alegre,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Although more expensive and labor-intensive, the practice replaces much of the Central Valley’s roughly 500,000 acres of rice with temporary wetlands during the winter, a semblance of how the land would naturally function without dams, and levees and civilization.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Fifteen years ago, Mexican attorney Alma Barraza immersed herself in a legal fight to win fair compensation for indigent villagers who lost their property when the government seized land to build a dam.—
Ray Long,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Embankment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embankment. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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