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unsluice

unsluice verb: to sluice; to open the sluice or sluices of (a lock).

Verb

unsluice (third-person singular simple present unsluices, present participle unsluicing, simple past and past participle unsluiced)

  1. (transitive) To sluice; to open the sluice or sluices of (a lock)
  2. (figuratively, transitive) to let (emotions etc.) flow; to discharge.
    • All ages, all degrees unsluice their eyes1717, John Dryden, Meleager and Atalanta

Forms of unsluice

third-person singular presentunsluices
present participleunsluicing
past participleunsluiced
pastunsluiced

Origin of unsluice

From un- + sluice.

Words that rhyme with unsluice

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Questions about unsluice

What does unsluice mean?
Unsluice means to sluice; to open the sluice or sluices of (a lock).
What part of speech is unsluice?
Unsluice is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsluice?
The past tense of unsluice is unsluiced.

Words near unsluice in the dictionary

  1. unsloughed
  2. unsloughing
  3. unslowed
  4. unslowing
  5. unsluggish
  6. unsluice
  7. unsluiced
  8. unsluices
  9. unsluicing
  10. unslumbering
  11. unslumberingly

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