canals

The word “canals” has 2 syllables: ca-nals

It's pronounced as /kəˈnælz/


What is synonym and antonym for canals?

In the thesaurus, “canals” has 23 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for canals along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for canals

  • aqueducts
  • channels
  • conduits
  • courses
  • floodways
  • flumes
  • gutters
  • millraces
  • millstreams
  • racecourses
  • raceways
  • rivers
  • rivulets
  • sluices
  • sluiceways
  • spillways
  • streams
  • swashes
  • tideways
  • torrents
  • troughs
  • watercourses
  • waterways

Meanings of canals

  • noun
    1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
    2. A tubular channel within the body.
    3. One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars.
  • verb
    1. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage.
    2. To travel along a canal by boat.

Example Sentences

  • The city has an extensive network of canals that help with transportation and irrigation.
  • Many ancient civilizations relied on canals to manage water resources for agriculture.
  • The engineers are working to clean and maintain the canals to prevent flooding.
  • The boat sailed through the canals of Venice, offering a picturesque view of the city.
  • The construction of canals revolutionized trade and commerce in the region.

On this page you'll find 23 synonyms or another words to canals, such as: aqueducts, channels, conduits, courses, floodways, flumes, gutters.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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dams

  • barrages
  • barricades
  • barriers
  • blocks
  • breakwaters
  • breastworks
  • bulwarks
  • bungs
  • calks
  • canals
  • caulks
  • channels
  • chinks
  • chokes
  • clogs
  • clots
  • congests
  • corks
  • dikes
  • ditches
  • earthworks
  • embankments
  • fills
  • floodgates
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  • furs
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  • gutters
  • heads
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  • levees
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  • milldams
  • obstructs
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  • silts
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  • spiles
  • stanks
  • stoppers
  • stopples
  • stops
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  • swamps
  • troughs
  • weirs

earthworks

  • barrages
  • barricades
  • barriers
  • blocks
  • breakwaters
  • breastworks
  • bulwarks
  • canals
  • channels
  • dams
  • dikes
  • ditches
  • embankments
  • floodgates
  • gutters
  • heads
  • jetties
  • levees
  • locks
  • milldams
  • ramparts
  • seawalls
  • sluices
  • stanks
  • troughs
  • weirs

kills

  • abbreviates
  • affluents
  • allures
  • annihilates
  • arrests
  • arroyos
  • assassinates
  • bayous
  • beasts
  • beckons
  • becks
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  • bewitches
  • billabongs
  • blackballs
  • blacklists
  • blacks out
  • bleeps
  • blips
  • blots out
  • blue-pencils
  • bournes
  • bourns
  • bowdlerizes
  • brakes
  • branches
  • breaks
  • brooklets
  • brooks
  • brutes
  • bumps off
  • burns
  • burns out
  • busts
  • butchers
  • canals
  • cancels
  • captivates
  • carries off
  • censors
  • channels
  • charms
  • chases
  • chocks
  • claims
  • clips
  • confluents
  • coulees
  • courts
  • creatures
  • creeks
  • critters
  • croaks
  • crops
  • cutoffs
  • cuts
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  • deles
  • deletes
  • delights
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  • disallows
  • disapproves
  • disarms
  • dismantles
  • dismisses
  • dispatches
  • distributaries
  • does away with
  • does for
  • does in
  • does up
  • downs
  • drains
  • draws
  • draws up
  • effaces
  • elides
  • enchants
  • enervates
  • enfeebles
  • enraptures
  • enthralls
  • enthrals
  • entices
  • entrances
  • eradicates
  • erases
  • euthanatizes
  • euthanizes
  • excises
  • executes
  • exhausts
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  • expurgates
  • fags
  • fascinates
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  • fells
  • finishes
  • frazzles
  • freshes
  • freshets
  • games
  • gets
  • gills
  • gratifies
  • guts
  • halts
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  • ices
  • influents
  • interests
  • intrigues
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  • jams
  • kills off
  • knocks off
  • knocks out
  • launders
  • lures
  • magnetizes
  • makes away with
  • martyrs
  • massacres
  • millraces
  • millstreams
  • mothballs
  • mows
  • murders
  • negatives
  • neutralizes
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  • offs
  • outwears
  • phases out
  • pleases
  • prey
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  • pulls
  • puts away
  • puts down
  • quarries
  • races
  • red-pencils
  • redacts
  • refuses
  • removes
  • represses
  • rills
  • rivulets
  • rubs out
  • runlets
  • runnels
  • runoffs
  • runs
  • saps
  • scrags
  • seduces
  • shoots down
  • shortens
  • shuts off
  • silences
  • slaughters
  • slays
  • slews
  • sloughs
  • slues
  • smites
  • snuffs
  • solicits
  • stalls
  • sticks
  • streamlets
  • streams
  • suicides
  • suppresses
  • takes
  • takes out
  • targets
  • tempts
  • terminates
  • tires
  • tributaries
  • turns off
  • vetoes
  • victims
  • washes
  • washes out
  • wastes
  • watercourses
  • waterways
  • weakens
  • wearies
  • wears
  • wears out
  • wears to a frazzle
  • whacks
  • wiles
  • wipes out
  • witches
  • woos

lagoons

  • anchorages
  • arms
  • basins
  • bayou
  • bays
  • bights
  • canals
  • channels
  • containerports
  • coves
  • creeks
  • docks
  • embayments
  • estuaries
  • fiords
  • firths
  • fjords
  • gulf
  • gulfs
  • harborages
  • harbors
  • havens
  • home ports
  • inlets
  • lochs
  • loughs
  • marinas
  • marsh
  • moorages
  • moorings
  • narrows
  • pond
  • pool
  • ports
  • roads
  • roadsteads
  • seaports
  • shallows
  • shoal
  • sounds
  • straits
  • tidal pond

racecourses

  • aqueducts
  • canals
  • channels
  • conduits
  • courses
  • floodways
  • flumes
  • gutters
  • millraces
  • millstreams
  • raceways
  • rivers
  • rivulets
  • sluices
  • sluiceways
  • spillways
  • streams
  • swashes
  • tideways
  • torrents
  • troughs
  • watercourses
  • waterways

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