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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

canalize

· IPA
01 v. to provide with a canal, as of a city.
  1. 1.
    to provide with a canal, as of a city.
  2. 2.
    to to direct the flow of; -- also used abstractly, as of money or information.
Syn. canal. — Syn. -- channel.