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Answer for the clue "Protect with a levee ", 6 letters:
embank

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Word definitions for embank in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embank \Em*bank"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embanked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Embanking .] [Pref. em- + bank. Cf. Imbank .] To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.

WordNet 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.