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View synonyms for splash down

splash down



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Idioms and Phrases

Land in water, as in The spacecraft splashed down within a few hundred yards of the pickup point . The splash in this idiom alludes to the impact of a solid body on water. [c. 1960]

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Example Sentences

Jerry said sharply, as we were laying Greg back again, and I felt something wet and warm splash down on my wrist.

Barrels of water splash down into our cockpit and roll off the decks.

The scores of streams which splash down from the snows are fringed with ferns and blossoms.

Now I can hear the bucket splash down in the well, and come up cold and dripping.

He had almost reached the Smiling Pool when great big drops of rain began to splash down.

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