canalizing
canalising BrE

Agricultural development and the canalizing of the Colorado River waters, during the twentieth century in Mexico, have completely obscured the site of the station.

This at its best is the Bhakti Yoga of India, a control and canalizing of the emotions into devotion to the Ideal.

This controlling and canalising of experience, it is argued, is carried out for the benefit of, if not directly on behalf of, the ruling property-owning class.

The present wooded, and considerably larger, island was formed in the early 19th century when the canalising of the outflow of the River Leven, which enters the Firth of Forth at the town of Leven, led to a substantial lowering of the water level.