Definition of "riverbank" [riverbank]

• The bank of a river. (noun)

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• "I still fail to see how being trained to rescue someone from a riverbank translates into diving into a cold river in which you can't see, swim down to a car that you only have a vague idea of its location, and rescue someone who may or may not be in the car and may or may not already be daed."
• "Conditions at the riverbank were a shared experience."
• "Let us break our apples upon the riverbank, which is Lethe, we cannot remember her - and her cheek is bruised from the fall."