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SLUICING

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Definitions

There are 9 meanings of the word Sluicing.

Sluicing - as an adjective

Pouring from or as if from a sluice

Example: "The sluicing rain"

Sluicing - as a verb

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.

Sluicing - as a noun

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".

Example Sentences

"She was sluicing the dirt off her garden tools."
"The rain was sluicing down the windowpanes."
"The workers were sluicing the floors to clean them."
"She was sluicing the kitchen floor with soapy water."
"The workers were busy sluicing the gravel to find any hidden gems."
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Word Game Points

Is SLUICING a valid Scrabble word?
Yes, sluicing is valid for both Scrabble US and EU
US/CA Valid UK/EU Valid

SLUICING has a SCRABBLE points total of 11.

Is SLUICING a valid Words With Friends word?
Yes, sluicing is valid for Words With Friends
Valid Word
SLUICING has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 16.

Is SLUICING a valid WordFeud word?
Yes, sluicing is valid for WordFeud
Valid Word
SLUICING has a WORDFEUD points total of 14.

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