To make something more like a beaver in function or design; to construct or engineer something in the way beavers build, especially to create dams or water management systems.
Beaver plus the suffix -ize (from Greek -izein), meaning 'to make' or 'to cause to become.' Standard English pattern for creating verbs from nouns.
The -ize suffix is enormously productive in English and shows how we constantly create new verbs from nouns—engineers who study beaver dams have literally 'beaverized' water management by copying nature's designs, which is a brilliant example of biomimicry before we even had that word!
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