transitive verb. To confine, support, or protect with an embankment.

To inclose with a bank; furnish with an embankment; defend or strengthen by banks, mounds, or dikes; bank up.

transitive verb. To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.

verb. To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.

verb. enclose with banks, as for support or protection

"But since the embank court has already said 10-2 that they're not going to give relief -- and there's nothing really new here -- I mean, it's conceivable that they could get the two judges that dissented and get a 2-1 decision."

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confine  enclose  hold in  

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