DIKE Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈdīk

Definition of dike

as in dam

a bank of earth constructed to control water an elaborate system of dikes built to protect the lowlands from the relentless onslaught of the sea

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as in ditch

a long narrow channel dug in the earth water flowed along the dike to the small pond

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verb

as in to fence

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Noun

More than 1 billion gallons of ash spilled into waterways and neighboring properties after a dike ruptured. — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2026 This is absolutely elite stuff all around, a whirlwind of the Knicks finding the net opening and making the right play, and the Spurs scrambling like mad to plug each new hole in the dike before finally Wembanyama seals it with a block at the rim. — John Hollinger, New York Times, 10 June 2026

Verb

The decision was largely informed by alarmingly low salmon runs as a result of heavily dammed, diked and channeled streams struggling to maintain healthy flows in the face of droughts and warming summers. — oregonlive, 17 June 2023 In addition to the hundreds of thousands of acres of marshland that were drained or diked off, the researchers discovered former wetlands that now are forested that were unknown to anybody. — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2019 See All Example Sentences for dike

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Noun

Videos broadcast by regional news outlets and posted on social media show violent torrents of water surging through valleys and mountain passes, tearing down bridges and dams and sweeping away buildings.

— Arshad R. Zargar, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
During that incident, hackers gained access to a digital system which remotely controls one of the dam’s valves and opened it to increase the water flow.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of dam

Noun

In the spring, when the snow is melting and the springs that are high up in the rock cliffs some miles away are carrying it down full speed, the ditches overflow as does the little creek that runs near my cabin.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026
Though Sarnia’s industrial corridor is downstream from Lake Huron, several drainage ditches in the area are connected to creeks that flow into the lake, Corcoran said in an interview.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of ditch

Verb

The organization highlighted careful monitoring, carried out with the farmers whose land the birds nested on, which allowed the nests to be fenced off from ground predators like foxes.

— Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026
During the Renaissance, Italians refined fencing into its modern form, and soon fencing schools began popping up all over Europe.

— Rebecca Leib, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of fence

Noun

After Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, the failure of New Orleans’ federal levee system inundated about 80% of the city in floodwaters.

— JACK BROOK, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
The landfill, a former marsh that is separated from San Francisco Bay by an earthen levee, first became an garbage dump in 1938.

— Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of levee

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Add the chicest pair of clogs, slim-line sneakers, and the most versatile trench below to your cart.

— Anna Traver, InStyle, 25 Aug. 2026
The film, set in the Belgian trenches of the First World War, follows the love between two young soldiers who try, through art and intimacy, to escape the horrors around them.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of trench

Noun

Rogers was allegedly evasive when asked how his truck had gone off the road and down an embankment and started to walk away from the trooper toward a nearby picnic table with a crossbow and several arrows on it, state police said.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026
Authorities said Roberts fell to his death from a steep embankment.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of embankment

Noun

Standing urinals in the form of gutters are found at some Roman public buildings, such as the Colosseum.

— Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2026
The documents detail a sprawling crime scene filled with bullet holes and littered with shell casings recovered from around the church, the neighboring playground and as far away as the walls and gutters of houses in the surrounding neighborhood.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026

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