slough
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
- 3.
A marshy or muddy area.
- 4.
(Northern US, Southern US)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.
- 5.
(US, Western)(Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
- 6.
A state of depression.
John is in a slough.
- 7.
(Canadian Prairies)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.
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To shed skin or outer layers.
This skin is being sloughed.
Snakes slough their skin periodically.
- 2.
(intransitive)To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.
A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
1944 United States. Bureau of Mines · War Minerals Report 386. Google books The adit penetrated the vug ... and at this level ... it was filled with material that had ... sloughed off the walls.
- 3.
(transitive)(transitive, card games) To discard.
East sloughed a heart.
- 4.
(US, Western, intransitive, slang)(intransitive, slang, Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
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From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh, from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, perhaps related to *sleupaną (to slip, sneak) (compare 𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌽).