canalize
verb (used with object)
to make a canal or canals through.
canalise
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a variation of
canalize.
Example Sentences
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And he had only four days now—four days in which to tap the tumultuous love power, to canalise it, to set it working for his escape.
From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley
But most artists have got to canalise their emotion and concentrate their energies on some more definite and more maniable problem than that of making something that shall be aesthetically "right."
From Art by Clive Bell
They canalise for their own security a torrent which, undisciplined, would serve but to destroy.
From Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance by Hilaire Belloc
Artists must canalise their emotion, they must concentrate their energies on some definite problem.
From Art by Clive Bell
