dyke out
C1 neutral separable transitive
In simple words
To build walls or ditches to keep water away from land.
Literal meaning: To take water out of an area using a dyke (an embankment or wall built to hold back water).
Meanings
1 C1 neutral
To protect or reclaim land from flooding by building dykes or drainage channels.
"The farmers dyked out the marshland so they could use it for growing crops."
Grammar: separable
2 C1 neutral
To remove water from an area by constructing or using dykes and drainage systems.
"Engineers spent three years dyking out the low-lying coastal region before construction could begin."
Grammar: separable
Usage notes
Primarily used in civil engineering, agriculture, and land-management contexts. More common in British English and Dutch-influenced varieties. Rarely used in everyday speech.
Commonly used with
land field marsh wetland area estuary
Forms
Base
dyke out
I/you/we/they
3rd person
dykes out
he/she/it
Past simple
dyked out
yesterday
Past participle
dyked out
have + pp
-ing form
dyking out
continuous
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