SLOSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slosh mean? 

• SLOSH (verb)
  The verb SLOSH has 3 senses:

1. make a splashing sound

2. walk through mud or mire

3. spill or splash copiously or clumsily

  Familiarity information: SLOSH used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLOSH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they slosh    ... he / she / it sloshes   
Past simple: sloshed   
Past participle: sloshed   
-ing form: sloshing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a splashing sound

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

slosh; slush; splash; splosh

Context example:

water was splashing on the floor

Hypernyms (to "slosh" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Walk through mud or mire

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

slop; slosh; splash; splosh; squelch; squish

Context example:

We had to splosh across the wet meadow

Hypernyms (to "slosh" is one way to...):

footslog; pad; plod; slog; tramp; trudge (walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Spill or splash copiously or clumsily

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

slosh; slosh around; slush; slush around

Context example:

slosh paint all over the walls

Hypernyms (to "slosh" is one way to...):

plash; spatter; splash; splatter; splosh; swash (dash a liquid upon or against)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

The sloshing produces a spiral pattern of cold fronts moving outward through the cluster gas.

(Scientists Surprised by Relentless Cosmic Cold Front, NASA)

“At first, we couldn’t understand how the gases could emerge much colder than the molten lava sloshing in the lake.”

(Size matters: if you are a bubble of volcanic gas, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

As he came out of his room he heard the slosh of water, a sharp exclamation, and a resounding smack as his sister visited her irritation upon one of her numerous progeny.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If the smaller cluster makes a close pass by the central core, the gravitational attraction between both structures causes the gas in the core to slosh around like wine swirled in a glass.

(Scientists Surprised by Relentless Cosmic Cold Front, NASA)