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embankment

noun as in dike

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In 1991, his middle child with Wolcott, Richard Carson tragically died in a car accident after his vehicle tumbled down an embankment during a nature photography session.

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The Clean Water March was organised by 140 organisations and started at the Albert Embankment and ended with a rally in Parliament Square.

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The driver was an older person who lost control of their vehicle on a nearby embankment and had minor injuries, said watch commander Lt.

The inquest heard Hugo lost control after taking the bend too fast, entered on to a grass verge, went down a steep embankment and then into a water-filled drainage ditch.

From BBC

A "complex repair operation" has begun to fix a motorway bridge after a lorry left the carriageway and fell on to an embankment below, authorities have said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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