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SLUICE DOWN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pour as if from a sluice

Example:

An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef

Synonyms:

sluice; sluice down

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "sluice down" is one way to...):

pelt; pour; rain buckets; rain cats and dogs; stream (rain heavily)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sentence example:

It was sluice downing all day long

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