Embankment Meaning In English
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Meaning
A embankment is a thick earthen wall built across low-lying land to carry a road or railway, or to prevent water from a river or sea from flooding the area.
Example
Embankment are built in a city to create shallow slopes for infrastructure such as roads, railways and access roads through canals, bridges and ravines, to store water for reservoirs or to protect low-lying land from flooding.
Synonym
barricade, dam
Sentence
The work on the newly constructed embankment for the movement of people and vehicles was done in three stages.
