Definition of "embanked" [embanked]

• Simple past tense and past participle of embank. (verb)

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• "Stanley died Saturday after a car he was driving swerved off a highway and hit trees down an embanked near Mareeba in Queensland, Australia, The Associated Press reports."
• "Chapter Twelve The next day, we broke camp and, taking the ogre2s horse along, joined the narrow trail of the pass once more, beginning our descent of the mountains through a steep, embanked region where the plants had frozen the night before."
• "Woolwich is one of those few places along the Thames where high ground reaches through the marshes that existed before the river was embanked."