Antonyms for levee
ˈlɛv i, lɛˈvilev·ee

Matched Categories

1. • Embankment
   • Pier
   • Reception

Princeton's WordNet

1. leveenoun

   a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)

2. leveenoun

   a pier that provides a landing place on a river

3. leveenoun

   an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing

How to use levee in a sentence?

1. Jeff Graschel:

   All the levels we're expecting will be contained in the levee systems.

2. Yoshinagi Higuchi:

   I checked the flood hazard map but it didn't have my area as being at risk, i heard there was a flood once before the war, but we just weren't expecting the water to come over the levee despite all the warnings.

3. John Lopez:

   Most of the population of St. Bernard is within the new levee system, but you also have some communities outside the levee system where, if anything, the conditions appear to have gotten worse.

4. Jean Stothert:

   Omaha has 13 miles of flood control on the Missouri River. The levee is safe and the river is not expected to compromise the levee. The levee is being monitored as a precaution.

5. Trufant Salvant:

   It is heartbreaking, we've gone through this so many times before and [ the ] only answer to all of this would be levee protection.

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