Slough

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or mire.
  • n. A stagnant swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater.
  • n. A state of deep despair or moral degradation.
  • n. The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or amphibian.
  • n. Medicine A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, sore, or inflammation.
  • n. An outer layer or covering that is shed.
  • verb-intransitive. To be cast off or shed; come off: The snake's skin sloughs off.
  • verb-intransitive. To shed a slough.
  • verb-intransitive. Medicine To separate from surrounding living tissue. Used of dead tissue.
  • v. To discard as undesirable or unfavorable; get rid of: slough off former associates.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
  • n. Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
  • v. To shed (skin).
  • v. To discard.
  • n. A muddy or marshy area.
  • n. A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
  • n. A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
  • n. A state of depression.
  • n. A small pond, often alkaine, many but not all are formed by glacial potholes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Slow.
  • n. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
  • n. A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
  • imp. of slee, to slay. Slew.
  • n. The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
  • n. The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
  • verb-intransitive. To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away
  • v. To cast off; to discard as refuse.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A hole full of deep mud or mire; a quagmire of considerable depth and comparatively small extent of surface.
  • n. (slö), A marshy hollow; a reedy pond; also, a long shallow ravine, or open creek, which becomes partly or wholly dry in summer.
  • n. Synonyms Swamp, etc. See marsh.
  • n. The skin of a serpent, usually the cast skin; also, any part of an animal that is naturally shed or molted; a cast; an exuvium.
  • n. In pathology, a dead part of tissue which separates from the surrounding living tissue, and is cast off in the act of sloughing.
  • n. A husk.
  • To come off as a slough: often with off.
  • To cast off a slough.
  • To cast off as a slough; in pathology, to throw off, as a dead mass from an ulcer or a wound.
  • A Middle English variant of slow.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
  • n. any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
  • n. a hollow filled with mud
  • v. cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
  • n. necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
  • Verb Form
    sloughed    sloughes    sloughing    sloughs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    swampland    swamp    cover    covering    natural covering    peat bog    bog   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    sloo    slue    slee   
    Form
    sloughed    sloughing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    slow    swale    sink    marsh    pool    scab    exuvium    shed   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bluff    bruff    buff    cuff    duff    enough    fluff    gruff    guff    hough