dike

Speech parts

1. dike - Noun

2. dike - Verb

3. Dike - Proper noun

Meaning

A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.

An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.

A wall of turf or stone.

A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.

To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

To drain by a dike or ditch.

To work as a ditcher; to dig.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dyke dam butch levee barrier embankment earthwork sea wall lake fort salina causeway kennel artesian palisade
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Antonyms

hill dune way hand influence headland
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Hypernyms

barrier lesbian enclose inclose close in shut in

Hyponyms

weir milldam

Phrases with the word

earthen dike

Derivatives

diked diking

Anagrams

IDEK

Examples

Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication. Edmund Burke

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property. Russel Honore

Where the dike is lowest the water first runs over. Dutch Proverb

He who starts a lawsuit makes a hole in the dike. Arabic Proverb

Of the Earth mon the dike be biggit. Scottish Proverb

dike the land to protect it from water Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

dikastic dikastophobia dikdik dike up dikelet dikelocephalid