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rechannel en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English channel English rechannel From re- + channel.

Meanings

1. To channel in a new or different way.
   • I wondered how some of that compassion for a hawk could be rechanneled to help human beings like those I had just seen dying in Darfur. 2009 January 18, Nicholas D. Kristof, “Win a Trip You Won’t Forget”, in New York Times:
   • Like many people of his generation, open homosexuality was not an option, and so his desires were limited to more furtive couplings and rechanneled into a whirlwind of frenzied political activity. 1985 August 24, Gordon Gottlieb, “CIA-Baiting a Liberal Closet Queen”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 14:

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