levee

Plural: levees

Noun

• a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)
• a pier that provides a landing place on a river
• an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing
• An elevated ridge of deposited sediment on the banks of a river, formed by the river's overflow at times of high discharge.
• An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
• The steep bank of a river.
• The border of an irrigated field.
• A pier or other landing place on a river.
• The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
• A reception of visitors held after getting up.
• A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.

Verb

Verb Forms: leveed, leveeing, levees

• To build an embankment (levee) to prevent a river from overflowing.
• To keep within a channel by means of levees.
• To attend the levee or levees of.

Examples

• The player tried to LEVEE off his opponent’s progress by strategically blocking paths.

Synonyms

dike, floodwall

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