SLUICE DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sluice down mean? 

• SLUICE DOWN (verb)
  The verb SLUICE DOWN has 1 sense:

1. pour as if from a sluice

  Familiarity information: SLUICE DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLUICE DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pour as if from a sluice

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

sluice; sluice down

Context example:

An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef

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