"bank up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bank up.ogg [Australia] Forms: banks up [present, singular, third-person], banking up [participle, present], banked up [participle, past], banked up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} bank up (third-person singular simple present banks up, present participle banking up, simple past and past participle banked up)
  1. To press a mound of something against something else.
    Sense id: en-bank_up-en-verb-ncvlQu7b
  2. To make a mound to guard against something.
    Sense id: en-bank_up-en-verb-IpDwwBJM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 91 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 15 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fortify

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for bank up meaning in English (1.5kB)

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