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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 canalplay

  Familiarity information: CANALIZE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CANALIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they canalize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it canalizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: canalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: canalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: canalizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide (a city) with a canal

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

canal; canalise; canalize

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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