2syllables
sluicing
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Definitions ofsluicing
1verb
- To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
- To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
Example: "to sluice meadows"
- To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
- (more generally) To wash (down or out).
- To flow, pour.
- To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
1noun
- The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
- 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".
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