channelize
/ˈtʃan(ə)lʌɪz
/(also channelise)
verb chiefly North American
Another term for channel (sense 1 of the verb).We have experienced impacts of the work we've done in the Mississippi River, in channelizing the river for navigation and flood control....
- The tasks of finishing post refueling checks, changing frequencies, maneuvering to a new formation, and working the radar at the same time channelized my attention and disrupted my cross-check, causing me to lose the horizon.
- Pammel Creek originally drained into one of these wetlands but was channelized between 1914 and 1927 to join Bluff Slough, a backwater of the Mississippi River just to the southwest of the site.
