rechannel

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ channel.

Verb

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

1. To channel in a new or different way.
   • 1985 August 24, Gordon Gottlieb, “CIA-Baiting a Liberal Closet Queen”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 14:

     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.

   • 2009 January 18, Nicholas D. Kristof, “Win a Trip You Won’t Forget”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Anagrams

• channeler