verb Download 🔗Share To emit by, or as by, flood gates. Examples : "The dam began sluicing water after the heavy rainfall, preventing it from overflowing. " action environment nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice Examples : "to sluice meadows" nature action environment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice. Examples : "The farmer used a sluice to sluice the dirt off the vegetables. " utility action agriculture environment process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (more generally) To wash (down or out). Examples : "After the kids finished playing in the mud, I had to sluice their boots with the garden hose to get the dirt off. " action utility Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To flow, pour. Examples : "The rain was sluicing off the roof, creating a waterfall effect. " action nature environment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing. Examples : "She said she'd bring something, but I don't know what she's sluicing. " grammar linguistics word Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching. Examples : "After the water balloon fight, the children ran inside, leaving a trail of wet footprints from the sluicing they'd received. " action nature weather Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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". Examples : "The professor used the sentence "She bought something, but I don't know what" as an example of sluicing in action. " grammar linguistics language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading