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sluice

verbCommon GRE wordMore S words

to wash or pour with a rushing flow of water

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Sluice in a sentence

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Workers sluiced the dust from the quarry floor.

Synonyms
flushrinsedrench
Antonyms

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The treaty was hailed as a triumph of diplomacy, yet historians now regard its terms as blank, since they merely postponed the conflicts they claimed to resolve.

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Sluice (verb) means to wash or pour with a rushing flow of water
Here is sluice used in an example sentence: "Workers sluiced the dust from the quarry floor."
Common synonyms for sluice include flush, rinse, drench.
Sluice is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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