sluicing

Meaning of sluicing

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

sluic-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • sluicing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of sluicing

scungili

Words that rhyme with sluicing

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