英语词汇“slough”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

verb | noun

sloughslough1 /slʌf/ verb

ETYMOLOGYslough¹

Origin: 1700-1800 slough dead skin of an animal (14-21 centuries), of unknown origin

VERB TABLE

slough

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	slough
	he, she, it	sloughs
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	sloughed
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have sloughed
	he, she, it	has sloughed
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had sloughed
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will slough
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have sloughed

Continuous Form
Present	I	am sloughing
	he, she, it	is sloughing
	you, we, they	are sloughing
Past	I, he, she, it	was sloughing
	you, we, they	were sloughing
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been sloughing
	he, she, it	has been sloughing
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been sloughing
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be sloughing
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been sloughing

[transitive] to get rid of a dead outer layer of skin SYN slough off, shed: A snake sloughs its old skin.slough off phrasal verb1 slough something ↔ off, slough off to get rid of a dead outer layer of skin, or to come off in this way2 slough something ↔ off to get rid of a feeling, belief, etc. SYN shed: We need to slough off the company’s bad image.

verb | noun

sloughslough2 /slaʊ, slu/ noun

ETYMOLOGYslough²

Origin: Old English sloh

1[countable] earth science, geography an area of land covered in deep dirty water or mud2a slough of despair/neglect etc. literary a bad situation or condition that you cannot get out of easily