Thesaurus results for LEVEE

levee

noun

ˈle-vē

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as in dam

a bank of earth constructed to control water the raging floodwaters were too much for the levee to handle

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as in wharf

a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers we tied the boat up at the levee and started unloading the fish we had caught

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Recent Examples of levee While the land up for sale is currently undeveloped, it's bordered by a neighborhood to its north and south, a river levee to the east, and a public road to the west. —

Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 15 May 2026 In April, officials noticed new damage to the levee. —

John Ryan, NPR, 3 May 2026 Dollison served on the Internal Improvements Committee and introduced a bill to create a levee district in Clay and Greene counties. —

Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2026 Constructing protective structures such as levees and dikes can help, as can preserving natural landscapes, such as wetlands and estuaries that can act as a natural sponge to absorb floodwaters, in and near the cities, Shao and her colleagues wrote. —

Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for levee

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The Colorado River gave the city power, beauty and a bit of unpredictability in roughly equal measure—especially before a system of dams helped tame the floods that had long made the river both useful and volatile.

— Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Farther east, attention is now turning to the Palokki hydropower dam in Finland’s Vuoksi river basin, where plans are underway to restore connectivity across another heavily fragmented watershed.

— Radina Gigova, CNN Money, 27 May 2026