slough

IPA: sɫˈʌf

noun

  • The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
  • Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
  • (Britain) A muddy or marshy area.
  • (Eastern United States) 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.
  • (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
  • A state of depression.
  • (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
  • A town in east Berkshire, England (formerly Buckinghamshire), close to Heathrow Airport.
  • A borough and unitary authority (Slough Borough Council) in Berkshire.

verb

  • (transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.
  • (intransitive) To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.
  • (transitive, card games) To discard.
  • (intransitive, slang, Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
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Examples of "slough" in Sentences

  • Dogs slough in winter.
  • I sunk into a slough of despond.
  • It is just to the north of the slough.
  • What on earth are you doing in that slough
  • Pumps and gates regulate the flow through the slough.
  • The flea then dies and is sloughed by the host's skin.
  • East of that point, the slough entered the East Glade.
  • I'm also in the slough of despond and had to do something.
  • Tidal amplitude in the upper reaches of the slough is diminished.
  • Slough UD contained the whole of the town and civil parish of Slough.

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