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单词 slough
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slough
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When you slough, you get rid of the rough. To slough is to remove an outer layer, like filing dry skin from feet. You can slough away emotions too, like the heebie-jeebies you get thinking about dead skin from people's feet. Ew.
Slough rhymes with "rough." It doesn't sound as though it'll give you a beautiful result, but when you slough away old skin, new skin appears. Snakes shed or slough off their skins as they grow and get rid of icky cells, and humans do the same, though fortunately we don't slough off one big skin as snakes do. Maybe it's best to slough off that mental image with a nicer one.
WORD FAMILY
slough: sloughed, sloughing, sloughs, sloughy+/sloughing: sloughings
USAGE EXAMPLES
Serving for 14 years as MP for Slough, in Berkshire, he was, according to the Daily Telegraph, a "tough, astute and popular" parliamentarian.
BBC(Jan 02, 2017)
Lacking the roots to hold his layers of skin together, AJ is at risk of his skin sloughing off from a hard bump.
Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017)
The resident reported seeing a body in the slough, near their home.
Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016)
1n a hollow filled with mud
Hyper
bog, peat bog
wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
2n a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
Hyper
swamp, swampland
low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
3n necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
gangrene, sphacelus
cold gangrene, dry gangrene, mumification necrosis, mummification
(pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color
clostridial myonecrosis, emphysematous gangrene, emphysematous phlegmon, gangrenous emphysema, gas gangrene, gas phlegmon, progressive emphysematous necrosis
(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used as a bioweapon
pathology
any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
4n any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
Hyper
cover, covering, natural covering
a natural object that covers or envelops
5v cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
exuviate, molt, moult, shed
desquamate, peel off
peel off in scales
cast, cast off, drop, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off
get rid of
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