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.
Rhymes
- Scottish play
- Scottish primrose
- Scottish rite
- Scottishry
- Scottish scurvy grass
- Scottish Sea
- Scottish terrier
- Scottish Vocational Qualification
- Scottophobe
- Scottophobia
- Scottsdale
- Scott, Sir Peter
- Scott, Sir Ridley
- Scott, Sir Robert
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Scott, Winfield
- Scotty
- SCOTUS
- scoundrel
- scoundreldom
- scoundrelism
- scoundrelly
- scour
- scourer
- scourge