Sentence:  Many years later, in 1953, Shostakovich summarized his dissatisfactions with the competition more bluntly: "Rimsky-Korsakov groomed, waved, and <WSD>sluiced</WSD> Musorgsky with eau de cologne. My orchestration is crude, in keeping with Musorgsky." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice