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imbank

imbank is the archaic form of embank.

Meaning of embank

Verb

embank (third-person singular simple present embanks, present participle embanking, simple past and past participle embanked)

  1. to put up a bank so as to confine or to defend
  2. to protect by a bank of earth or stone

Forms of imbank

third-person singular presentimbanks
present participleimbanking
past participleimbanked
pastimbanked

Origin of imbank

From im- + bank.

Words formed from imbank

Questions about imbank

What is imbank the archaic form of?
Imbank is the archaic form of embank.

Words near imbank in the dictionary

  1. imband
  2. imbanded
  3. imbanding
  4. imbands
  5. Imbangala
  6. imbank
  7. imbanked
  8. imbanking
  9. imbankment
  10. imbankments
  11. imbanks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imbank (page history and authors); embank (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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