Verb:

கரையிடு,

embank's Usage Examples:

This steel septum was protected on either side by a thin wall of asphaltic concrete supported by rubble stone embankments, and owing to irregular settling of 'the embankments became greatly distorted, apparently, however, without causing leakage.

It's about time for your daily chat, isn't it?An interesting case of embankment and cutting in combination was involved in crossing Chat Moss on the Liverpool ' Manchester railway.

Below these the grandest of the embankments extends to the City at Blackfriars.

In some cases, as, for example, when a high earthen embankment crosses a gorge, and there is plenty of stone to be had, it is desirable to place the outer bank upon a toe or platform of rubble stonework, as in fig.

In addition, various kinds of canals and endiked or embanked lakes had come into existence, forming altogether a vast network of more or less stagnant waters.

viminalis is one of the best of the green osiers, suitable for hoops and valuable for retaining the soil on sloping embankments.

Below London Bridge the river is embanked for a short distance in front of the Tower of London, and above Westminster Bridge the Albert Embankment extends for nearly 1 m.

When the ice breaks up in spring they always leave their embankments, and rove about until a little before the fall of the leaf, when they return to their old habitations, and lay in their winter stock of wood.

As the freshets begin to lessen and retire into the deeper channels, the currents form natural embankments on their edges, preventing the return of a small portion of water which is thus left stagnant on the sands, and exposed to the action of the sun's rays.

The walls are embanking walls, with a low breastwork in places.

The Ibrahimia canal is skirted by a magnificent embankment planted with shady trees leading from the river to the town.

Synonyms:

hold in, enclose, confine,

Antonyms:

unsheathe, increase, enable, free,