Canalize (Verb)
Meaning
Provide (a city) with a canal.
Classification
Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Examples
- A new waterway will canalize the old river providing an alternative route for transportation and commerce in Amsterdam.
- The city council has approved funding to canalize the worn-out waterway that once provided drinking water to the area's townspeople.
- As construction to canalize the former industrial area neared completion the landscape architect redesigned the new park spaces by planting foliage.
- Local business owners looked forward to the opportunity to canalize the existing river running through downtown Springfield.
- A separate city project began when officials decided to canalize the separate urban space of large public fountain.