to slosh
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3.7
- verb
- /slɑʃ/
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- As he walked along the beach, the waves would slosh around his feet.
Tides sloshing on and off the shores.
- Tides sloshing on and off the shores.
- What happens my Your leg gets wet, The water sloshes out.
- Well, you know, there is a lot of cheap money that's sloshing around thanks to the Fed.
- His top is open and sloshing around.
- You have to rotate in the air and as you also highlight, you know, there's liquid fuel sloshing around in the tank.
- The atom will slosh several times through the resonance in an almost diabetic way.
- And in a firm, so if you have spillable items, it's not like things are like sloshing into it and squishing it and like getting stuff to fall out of it.
Examples
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The tumbler of neat gin that she held sloshed onto the sisal rug.
Fiction book (1993) -
You can still see it sloshing a little bit actually.
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- Slosh around in the water.
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His top is open and sloshing around.
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Her hands were shaking, and she sloshed some on the table.
Fiction book (1990) -
The waves knocked at my knees as I sloshed toward my cabin.
Fiction book (1993) -
With his right hand, Larry scoops up some water and sloshes it over her legs.
Fiction book (1991) -
I carried water from the creek in two battered feed buckets and sloshed it onto the floor.
Fiction book (1992) -
A sudden thought made him sit upright in the tub, water sloshing heedlessly against the cast-iron sides.
Fiction book (1992) -
Nynaeve returned the pitcher of water to the washstand vigorously, sloshing some out.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
91
1.0
To make liquid move so it hits things and makes noise
10
5.3
To walk with a soft, wet sucking sound through mud
4
2.9
To play in water by moving and making water spray
3
1.2
Make water spray in small drops by hitting or moving through it
3
5.9
To make liquid move and spill around inside a container
3
7.0
Make a soft, wet sucking sound, for example when you walk on mud
1
7.4
To walk through mud or water and make a splashing sound
To move through water and make a loud wet sound
To splash liquid around and make a mess
To spill liquid in a heavy or clumsy way
To move or splash with force and noise
To splash small drops against a surface and make spots
Phrasal Verbs
How Noisy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slosh is a sound word, like splash, that copies the wet, heavy noise of water moving. That is why to slosh is 'to move liquid around noisily' or to walk through water or mud and make a splashing sound.