Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb sluice

4 senses of sluice

Sense 1
sluice, sluice down -- (pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef")
       => pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets -- (rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!")

Sense 2
sluice, flush -- (irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth")
       => drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse -- (cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face")

Sense 3
sluice -- (transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs")
       => transport -- (move something or somebody around; usually over long distances)

Sense 4
sluice -- (draw through a sluice; "sluice water")
       => draw, take out -- (take liquid out of a container or well; "She drew water from the barrel")

Similarity of adj sluicing

1 sense of sluicing

Sense 1
sluicing -- (pouring from or as if from a sluice; "the sluicing rain")
       Participle of verb sluice (Sense 4)
      => sluice -- (draw through a sluice; "sluice water")
       => draw, take out -- (take liquid out of a container or well; "She drew water from the barrel")