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slough
1[sluhf]
noun
the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
Pathology.a mass or layer of dead tissue separated from the surrounding or underlying tissue.
anything that is shed or cast off.
Cards.a discard.
verb (used without object)
to be or become shed or cast off, as the slough of a snake.
to cast off a slough.
Synonyms:Pathology.to separate from the sound flesh, as a slough.
Cards.to discard a card or cards.
verb (used with object)
to dispose or get rid of; cast (often followed byoff ).
to slough off a bad habit.
to shed as or like a slough.
Cards.to discard (cards).
verb phrase
to treat as slight or trivial.
to slough over a friend's mistake.
slough
2[slou, sloo]
noun
a swamp or swamplike region.
Northern U.S. and Canada.Also slew, slue a usually shallow and slow-moving marshy or reedy body of water, such as one that provides drainage; wetland.
a hole full of mud or wet soil, such as one in a road.
a condition of degradation, despair, or helplessness.
Exercise was one thing that helped to lift me out of the slough of depression.
slough
1/ ʊ /
noun
a hollow filled with mud; bog
(in the prairies) a large hole where water collects or the water in such a hole
(in the northwest) a sluggish side channel of a river
(on the Pacific coast) a marshy saltwater inlet
despair or degradation
slough
2/ ʌ /
noun
any outer covering that is shed, such as the dead outer layer of the skin of a snake, the cellular debris in a wound, etc
Also: sluff.bridge a discarded card
verb
(often foll by off) to shed (a skin, etc) or (of a skin, etc) to be shed
Also: sluff.bridge to discard (a card or cards)
Slough
3/ ʊ /
noun
an industrial town in SE central England, in Slough unitary authority, Berkshire; food products, high-tech industries. Pop: 126276 (2001)
a unitary authority in SE central England, in Berkshire. Pop: 118800 (2003 est). Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles)
slough
The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or an amphibian.
To shed an outer layer of skin.
Other Word Forms
- sloughiness noun
- sloughy adjective
- unsloughed adjective
- unsloughing adjective
- ˈdzܲ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of slough1
Origin of slough2
Word History and Origins
Origin of slough1
Origin of slough2
Example Sentences
Rather than correct them, Liz decides to keep up the pretense — no great stretch for someone so used to sloughing off and trying on one alias after another.
The MS Aurora, a 70-year-old cruise ship that inspired TV’s ‘The Love Boat,’ sits abandoned in a slough outside Stockton.
Aiello, who has monitored environmental conditions at the slough for more than a decade, said he was shocked by the results.
But consider adding on a scrub and sloughing off a layer or two of skin — it’s my favorite way to enter the new year.
At a time when capitulating to the mainstream was regarded as selling out, R.E.M.’s move to a major label stung, as if the band had sloughed off its loyalists for the teeming masses.
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