canalizing in English

verb
1
convert (a river) into a navigable canal.
This was a side effect of the Industrial Revolution; many of our rivers were canalised and made navigable during the C19th which stuffed it all up with weirs and locks and pollution.
verb

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1. Canalize (third-person singular simple present Canalizes, present participle canalizing, simple past and past participle Canalized) US and Non- Oxford British English spelling of canalise Portuguese [ edit ]

2. Inflections of 'Canalize' (v): (⇒ conjugate) Canalizes v 3rd person singular (US & UK) canalizing v pres p verb, present participle: -ing verb used descriptively or to form progressive verb--for example, "a …

3. Synonyms of Canalize to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway the director of the charity should be canalizing the flow of donations so that the money ends up where it is most needed