Dike (Verb)
Meaning
Enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The villagers had to dike the low-lying areas to prevent the floodwaters from destroying their homes.
- A wall was built to dike the lake and create a reservoir that would supply water to the entire city.
- To make the land usable for farming, the engineers decided to dike the area to keep the sea water from flooding the fields.
- Farmers built a canal to dike their rice fields with water from the nearby river.
- The coastal residents dike the shore with sandbags and walls to prepare for the storm.