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CANALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does canalize mean?
• CANALIZE (verb)
The verb CANALIZE has 1 sense:
1. provide (a city) with a canal
Familiarity information: CANALIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they canalize ... he / she / it canalizes
Past simple: canalized
Past participle: canalized
-ing form: canalizing
... he / she / it canalizes Past simple: canalized
Past participle: canalized
-ing form: canalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provide (a city) with a canal
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "canalize" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
canal (long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation)
canalization (the production of a canal or a conversion to canals)
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