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channelizing

vb. (present participle of channelize English)

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Declivities in the landscape had turned into deep sand-walled canyons, cutting downstream to the North Sea in very unstable watersheds, channelizing subsequent spring melts and shifting rapidly as slopes collapsed and landslides created short-lived lakes, before the dams were cut through and carried off in their turn, leaving only beach terraces and slide gates.

The living things controlled their shares of magic, channelizing it, focusing it, making it manifest at will.