rechannel

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verb

To channel in a new or different way.

OriginEnglish channel ← Middle English re- ← Old French re- →
UncommonScrabble 14
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Meanings

verbrechannel (third-person singular simple present rechannels, present participle (US) rechanneling or (UK) rechannelling, simple past and past participle (US) rechanneled or (UK) rechannelled)

present singular third person rechannels · US participle present rechanneling · UK participle present rechannelling · US participle past rechanneled · US past rechanneled · UK participle past rechannelled · UK past rechannelled

  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
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    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

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishchannel
  7. Englishrechannel

From re- + channel.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

channeler
Cite this entry
APA

rechannel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rechannel

MLA

“rechannel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rechannel. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rechannel,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rechannel.

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