sluice down
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Definition
Verb: - To wash or rinse something copiously with a large, rapid flow of water, as if from a sluice (a channel or gate for controlling water flow). It implies a thorough, forceful, and often rapid cleaning action.
Usage
This verb is typically used to describe the action of cleaning or drenching a surface, object, or area with a powerful stream of water. It is often used in contexts involving cleaning, heavy rain, or forceful liquid movement.
Examples
Advanced Usage
- Figurative Use: Can be used metaphorically to describe something moving or spreading in a copious, forceful manner.
- Sunlight sluiced down through the canopy of leaves.
- New information sluiced down the corporate channels, causing a stir.
Variants and Related Words
- Sluice (verb): To wash with or send down a sluice; to flow or pour freely.
- They sluice the gravel to separate the gold.
- Sluicing (noun): The action or process of washing with a sluice.
- The sluicing of the mining tailings is an environmental concern.
Synonyms
- Flush: To cleanse or wash out with a sudden flow of water.
- Rinse: To wash lightly with water.
- Hose down: To wash something using a hose.
- Drench: To wet thoroughly; to soak.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Sluice out: To clean the inside of something by flushing it with water.
- We need to sluice out the gutters before the storm season.
Related Idioms
- (Come) down in torrents: To rain very heavily, similar to the action of sluicing.
- The rain was coming down in torrents, sluicing down the hillsides.
Verb
- pour as if from a sluice
- An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef