slough
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/slʌf/
English
Definitions
noun
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.“That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.”
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.“This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.”
verb
- To shed (skin).“Snakes slough their skin periodically.”
- To slide off (like a layer of skin).“A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.”
- To discard.“East sloughed a heart.”
- (Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission. (compare ditch)“"Dude, Kaydn and Jarom are totally sloughing today!"”
noun
- A muddy or marshy area.
- (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.”
- (Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- A state of depression.“John is in a slough.”