slough

Meaning of slough

noun
  1. The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
    That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
  2. Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
    This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
verb
  1. To shed (skin).
    Snakes slough their skin periodically.
  2. To slide off (like a layer of skin).
    A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
  3. To discard.
    East sloughed a heart.
  4. (Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission. (compare ditch)
    "Dude, Kaydn and Jarom are totally sloughing today!"
noun
  1. A muddy or marshy area.
  2. (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.
    We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
  3. (Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
  4. A state of depression.
    John is in a slough.
  5. A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
    Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems.

Information about slough

  • The plural form of slough is: sloughs.
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Hyphenation of slough

slough

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • slough is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

slough synonyms

Meaning gangrene:

gangrene, sphacelus

Meaning shed:

shed, molt, exuviate, moult

Anagrams of slough

ghouls, loughs

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