Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
- 2verb
enclose with banks, as for support or protection
"The river was embanked with a dyke"
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