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- pronunciation:
- baengk
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a heap or mass of something, such as earth or clouds.
The enormous cloud bank told us a storm was coming.- synonyms:
- heap, mass, pile
- similar words:
- accumulation, bale, bundle, cock, drift, mow, rick, shock, stack
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| definition 2: |
a slope, usu. of earth.
The car slid off the side of the road and down the steep bank.- synonyms:
- acclivity, embankment, incline, mound, slope
- similar words:
- dike, drift, dune, hill, hillock, knoll, levee, parapet, ridge, rise
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| definition 3: |
the ground at the edge of a river or stream.
We pulled the canoe up on the bank.
- synonyms:
- shore
- similar words:
- beach, foreshore, littoral
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| related words: |
bluff, incline, mound, pile |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
banks, banking, banked |
| definition 1: |
to form a bank around or along the edge of; embank.
- synonyms:
- embank
- similar words:
- border, dike, grade, mound, slope, tilt
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| definition 2: |
to form into a pile or heap, as sand, earth, or snow.
- synonyms:
- heap, hill, mound, stack
- similar words:
- accumulate, aggregate, bundle, cock, cumulate, drift, mass, pile, rick, shock
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition: |
to form or rise into a bank.
- synonyms:
- slant, slope
- similar words:
- drift, heap, tilt, tip
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| related words: |
slope, stack |
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