sluicing

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Verb

1. present participle of sluice#English|sluice

Noun

sluicing (plural sluicings)

1. The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
2. (linguistics) A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why".

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