embanked

English

Adjective

embanked (comparative more embanked, superlative most embanked)

1. Protected by or containing embankments.
   • 1827, François Jean marquis de Chastellux, Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780-81-82, page 116:

     As it approaches its conflux, this creek becomes more and more embanked, and difficult to ford: the heights are equal on the two banks; but for this reason the advantage was in favour of him who defended the passage.

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 374, about Tealby:

     Most of the older buildings are of reddish-brown ironstone with mossy-tiled roofs, and almost all have stone-embanked gardens, richly planted and expertly maintained.

   • 2010, Tony Spagnoly, Ted Smith, Salient Points Five: Ypres & Picardy, 1914–18:

     North of the wood from the Hospice Redoubt stood Red Château where today stands a cottage, its position edging what was then a sunken road, the remains of its original course still visible alongside the more embanked road of today.

   • 2012, Judith Ehlert, Beautiful Floods, page 33:

     The open floodplains in the Long Xuyen Quadrangle became more and more embanked, and therefore the conditions for flood-adapted, traditional floating rice increasingly declined.

Derived terms

• unembanked

Verb

embanked

1. simple past and past participle of embank