MEANING
To move or make liquid move with heavy, irregular splashing, especially in a partly filled space.
Use it for
Water in hollows, awkward wet walking, and heavy repeated movement.Give liquid weight as it moves from side to side.
Words that belong together
- water sloshes
- slosh through mud
- slosh against the bank
On the page
Water sloshed in the rock pool as each wave arrived.
They sloshed through the flooded meadow.
Wind pushed the pond water against the bank, where it sloshed among the roots.
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Word forms
- Base
- slosh / sloshes
- Past tense
- sloshed
- Past participle
- sloshed
- Present participle
- sloshing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- slosh / sloshes
- Present continuous
- am/is/are sloshing
- Present perfect
- have/has sloshed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been sloshing
- Past
- sloshed
- Past continuous
- was/were sloshing
- Past perfect
- had sloshed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been sloshing
- Future
- will slosh / sloshes
- Future continuous
- will be sloshing
- Future perfect
- will have sloshed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been sloshing
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Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Suggests bulk water moving back and forth, unlike fine spray; also describes wading through wet ground. Verb [base, third-person, past, past participle, -ing]: slosh, sloshes, sloshed, sloshed, sloshing.
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