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How to pronounce “floodgate”
Hear “floodgate” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for floodgate
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of floodgate with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 4 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- "Stumbling towards intimacy": An improvised TED Talk
and we hide behind what we like to call the floodgate of intimacy.
- Definition summary
- An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.
Example 1 of 4
How to pronounce floodgate
"Stumbling towards intimacy": An improvised TED Talk
and we hide behind what we like to call the floodgate of intimacy.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “floodgate”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.
- (figuratively, extension) Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion, etc.
- (obsolete) A stream that passes through a floodgate; a torrent.
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