单词 | sloughy |
释义 | sloughy (once / 492472 pages) adj WORD FAMILY slough: sloughed, sloughing, sloughs, sloughy+/sloughing: sloughings USAGE EXAMPLESWhen they reached him he led them to a wide meadow-like stretch of sloughy ground, and showed them the fresh hoof-prints of many ponies. Gregor, Elmer Russell, White Otter(2011) Cavity sloughy throughout and cæcum covered with dull grey lymph. Makins, George Henry, Surgical Experiences in South Afric...(2010) Usually, however, the wound is inflamed and suppurating, with ragged and sloughy edges. Thomson, Alexis, Manual of Surgery Volume First:—Ge...(2010) adj (of soil) soft and watery the sloughy edge of the pond Syn boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged wet covered or soaked with a liquid such as water |
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