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(transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. / (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice / (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.

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sluice

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Source Word

sluice

IPA(Pronunciation)

/sluːs/

Verb

rare transitive broadly intransitive

(transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. / (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice / (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.

Japanese Meaning

水門を通じて放流する / 水門を開け、大量の水を浴びせる / 水流を利用して洗う

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Every spring, the engineers sluice the reservoir to flush out silt and control water levels.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

毎年春になると、技術者たちは水門を開いて貯水池の水を放出し、堆積した汚泥を洗い流して水位を調整します。

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(transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

Nigh on the plain, in many cells prepared, / That underneath had veins of liquid fire / Sluiced from the lake, a second multitude / With wondrous art founded the massy ore, / Severing each kind, and scummed the bullion-dross.

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Sense（2）

(transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice

Sense（3）

(transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.

to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining

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(transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).

[…] he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death, / Suggest his soon-believing adversaries, / And consequently, like a traitor coward, / Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood

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