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unsluices

unsluices is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unsluice.

Meaning of unsluice

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

Questions about unsluices

What is unsluices the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unsluices is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unsluice.

Words near unsluices in the dictionary

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

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