What is "channelized"

Usage examples of "channelized".

Indeed, as he spoke, there was a great splashing, as the ogres reached the channelized river and waded in, knocking out the retaining walls as they went.

Then you channelized it, and the land dried out, and the hummers increased.

A bedrock rib on the far side of the glacier paralleled the one they were on, and the two ribs together looked like old lateral moraines, although really they were just parallel ridges that had channelized the outbreak flood.

The great outburst of '61 was now reduced to a slender pipeline's worth of water, channelized and regulated.

In the context of the great ice world stretching to the horizon in every direction, it was no more than a trickle-but it kept pouring steadily, the water on the eastern mass now channelized by ice on its sides, the falls booming like thunder, the water on the western side fanning out in a hundred streams through the broken ice and the hair on Maya's neck lifted in fear.

The great outburst of ‘61 was now reduced to a slender pipeline’s worth of water, channelized and regulated.

In the context of the great ice world stretching to the horizon in every direction, it was no more than a trickle—but it kept pouring steadily, the water on the eastern mass now channelized by ice on its sides, the falls booming like thunder, the water on the western side fanning out in a hundred streams through the broken ice— and the hair on Maya’s neck lifted in fear.

The little stream he had strolled beside in the company of the curious native female was gone completely, diverted or channelized out of existence.