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sluice

2 verb
     
sluice2
1 [transitive] to wash something with a lot of water
sluice something out/down
He was sluicing down the table and the floor.
2 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] if water sluices somewhere, a large amount of it suddenly flows there
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