embanked

Protected by or containing embankments.

Adjective

  1. Protected by or containing embankments.
    • 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. -...
    • 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. - 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive...
    • 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...

Forms

more embanked most embanked

Derived

unembanked

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of embank