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Keep from spilling over, in a way
Answer for the clue "Keep from spilling over, in a way ", 6 letters:
embank
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. to throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. enclose with banks, as for support or protection; "The river was embanked with a dyke"
Usage examples of embank.
It was embanked and neatly ditched, raising it a little above the soft black earth of the cornfields tasseling out around them and the cassava patches, vegetable gardens, groves.
No deepening, embanking, straightening, canalization of the river is to be permanently effective until all danger of flood can be removed.