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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