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Examples of embankment
embankment
The car crossed the highway, struck a barrier and came to rest in an embankment.
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He was 18 when the car he was riding in ran off the road and down an embankment.
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The car traveled up the embankment, overturned and slid back down onto the road.
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It went through a guardrail and partly down an embankment, spilling diesel fuel.
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The vehicle rolled down an embankment, and Radzus was thrown out of the vehicle.
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An embankment of pews line the brightly muraled walls, an NYC borough landscape.
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Hazare encouraged the villagers to donate their labour to repair the embankment.
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Nemsky said part of an embankment is falling away, causing the roadway to crack.
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The village tank could not hold water as the earthen embankment dam wall leaked.
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- A long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection
- To keep a road or railway line straight and/or flat, and where the comparative cost or practicality of alternate solutions (such as diversion) is prohibitive, the land over which the road or rail line will travel is built up to form an embankment. ...
- A section of railway line where the surrounding countryside is at a lower level than the line and the ground has been built up to put in the line.
- To dream that you drive along an embankment, foretells you will be threatened with trouble and unhappiness. If you continue your drive without unpleasant incidents arising, you will succeed in turning these forebodings to useful account in your advancement. ...
- Fill material, usually earth or rock, placed with sloping sides and with a length greater than its height. Usually an embankment is wider than a dike.
- A man-made earth structure constructed for the purpose of impounding water.
- An elevated man-made or natural deposit of soil, rock or other materials
- An earth wall constructed to contain or exclude water.
- The artificial bank built along a river to protect adjacent land from flood waters. Also called levee or dike.
