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What does harnessed mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of harness
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The rapids have since been harnessed to provide the city with hydroelectricity.
The Twitterverse and other social media have been harnessed in less nefarious ways by Torontonians itching to have their say on the strike.
Her murder is a political thunderbolt that, if correctly harnessed, could single-handedly save the pro-euro cause.
The weak force is harnessed in modern hospitals in the form of radioactive tracers used in nuclear medicine.
From early Colonial days until the end of the 19th century, the waters of the Mystic were harnessed to power tide mills.
Americans, by and large, view nature as a treasure trove of useful resources waiting to be harnessed for productive ends.

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