canalize

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There were plenty of normal people like myself who were able to maintain their selfcontrol and canalize those energies promoting crimes and beastly exhibitions in the unrestrained into looking forward to the day when the Grass would be gone and sanity return.

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  1. transitive verb To furnish with or convert into a canal or canals.
  2. transitive verb To provide an outlet for; channel.

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  • Now, in the hypothesis we propose, the relation of vision to the visual apparatus would be very nearly that of the hand to the iron filings that follow, canalize and limit its motion. —  Evolution créatrice. English
  • There were plenty of normal people like myself who were able to maintain their selfcontrol and canalize those energies promoting crimes and beastly exhibitions in the unrestrained into looking forward to the day when the Grass would be gone and sanity return. —  Greener Than You Think
  • The next point is to remove all obstructions from the river, to canalize it at shallow places or rapids, so that the whole river will be navigable, and, if necessary, to deepen the channel so that it will carry large vessels between two important points. —  Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation
  • Craft can harness this sort of explosive force, it can control it, or persuade it, or canalize it to certain issues, but it cannot create it. —  First and Last
  • To direct and canalize these forces let loose by this Heaven-sent process, and to insure their harmonious and continuous operation after His ascension, an instrument divinely ordained, invested with indisputable authority, organically linked with the Author of the Revelation Himself, was clearly indispensable. —  God Passes By
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/kəˈnælaɪz/
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