canalize
verb(British English also canalise)
- canalize something (specialist)
to make a river wider, deeper or straighter; to make a river into a canal 把（河道）加宽，加深，变直；把（河流）改建成运河 - canalize something (formal)
to control an emotion, activity, etc. so that it is aimed at a particular purpose 把（情绪、行为等）引向某一渠道
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from French canaliser, from canal ‘channel’, alteration of chanel ‘channel’, from Latin canalis ‘pipe, groove, channel’, from canna ‘cane’.