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retaining wall

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A wall built to hold back a mass of earth or water.

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  • noun any of several structures used to restrain a vertical-faced mass of earth

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)

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synonyms (21)

Words with the same meaning

  1. abutment
  2. arc-boutant
  3. bank
  4. beam
  5. breakwater
  6. bulwark
  7. buttress
  8. buttress pier
  9. buttressing
  10. embankment
  11. flying buttress
  12. groin
  13. hanging buttress
  14. jetty
  15. jutty
  16. mole
  17. pier
  18. pier buttress
  19. rampart
  20. seawall
  21. shoulder

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. wall

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