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slough 1 S0471800 (slo͞o, slou) also slew (slo͞o)n.1. A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or mire.2. also slue A swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater.3. A state of deep despair or moral degradation.
[Middle English, from Old English slōh.]
slough′y adj.
slough 2 S0482100 (slŭf)n.1. The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or amphibian.2. Medicine A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, sore, or inflammation.3. An outer layer or covering that is shed or removed.v. sloughed, slough·ing, sloughs v.intr.1. To be cast off or shed; come off: "smooth fallen branches from which all bark has sloughed" (David M. Carroll).2. To shed a slough: every time that a snake sloughs.3. Medicine To separate from surrounding living tissue. Used of dead tissue.v.tr.1. To cast off or shed (skin or a covering): came inside and sloughed off his coat.2. To discard or disregard as undesirable or unfavorable: sloughed off her misgivings.Phrasal Verb: slough off Slang To work less intensely than is required or expected.
[Middle English slughe; akin to Middle High German slūch, sluoch , sloughed off snake skin (Modern German Schlauch, hose, tire tube).]
Slough S0482200 (slou) A borough of southeast England, a residential and industrial suburb of London.Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. |  sloughy - (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged, squashy, sloppywet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather" |
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Synonyms for sloughyadj (of soil) soft and waterySynonyms- boggy
- marshy
- miry
- mucky
- muddy
- quaggy
- soggy
- swampy
- waterlogged
- squashy
- sloppy
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