embank

embank is a 6-letter English word with 2 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
2. verb. enclose with banks, as for support or protection

   "The river was embanked with a dyke"

Common word forms

embanks, embanked, embanking, embankment

Words from these letters

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