channelize

American  

[chan-l-ahyz] / ˈtʃæn lˌaɪz /

especially British, channelise

verb (used with or without object)

channelized, channelizing

1. to channel.

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channelize British  

/ ˈtʃænəlaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to guide through or as if through a channel; provide a channel for

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Other Word Forms

• channelization
  noun
• nonchannelized
  adjective
• unchannelized
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of channelize

First recorded in 1600–10; channel ¹ + -ize

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

channelize channelized channelizing

“It would be a true homage to her memory if we are able to channelize these emotions and energies into a constructive course of action.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2012

It would be a true homage to her memory if we are able to channelize these emotions and energies into a constructive course of action.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2012

Nonviolent resistance also provides a creative force through which men can channelize their discontent.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a result, the SCS is modifying its ambitious plans to "channelize" up to 150,000 miles of U.S. waterways.

From Time Magazine Archive

Imagine streets and sidewalks with healthy tree canopies, permeable paving, and green infrastructure that captures rainwater for recharge or reuse, so it enters the water table instead of being directed to our channelized rivers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

About 5,000 gallons went into the concrete vault that houses the pressure gauges, until it began to overflow and run down a slight slope into a channelized portion of a salmon stream below.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

Yet California squandered much of the bounty from its recent unusually wet winter, as levees, channelized rivers and paved cities funneled much of the runoff into the ocean rather than capturing it.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2023

Dunes are the most common sedimentary structure found within channelized flows of air or water.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017

I seem to feel that it wants something, that its direction has become more channelized.

From The Issahar Artifacts by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

Their solution was to lay millions of barrels of concrete to get rid of that water faster — channelizing the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

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