Sluicing

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  • v. Present participle of sluice.
  • n. The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
  • n. A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why".
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The material of a sluice or sluiceway.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. pouring from or as if from a sluice
  • Verb Form
    sluiced    sluices    sluicing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    transport    conduit    rain cats and dogs    stream    rain buckets    pour    pelt    douse    soak    souse   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    sluiced    sluicing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    drain    wash   
    Rhyme
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    Bruce    Chartreuse    Duce    Luce    Seuss    Spruce    Zeus    abstruse    abuse    boose   
    Same Context
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    dyke    dam    seepage