embank in English
verb
1
construct a wall or bank of earth or stone in order to confine (a river) within certain limits.
Trench's solution to the now-threatening nature of the Thames was to embank the river, allowing the water to cover the mudbanks and to scour away the semi-liquid ‘sluggish Filth’ from the sewers.
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