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SLUICE DOWN
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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
